COVID-19 – does exercise prescription and maximal oxygen uptake (VO2 max) have a role in risk-stratifying patients?
Irfan Ahmed
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmed.2020-0111
Clin Med May 2020 Irfan Ahmed
AThe Royal London Hospital, London, UK
Roles: sport and exercise medicine registrar
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COVID-19 – does exercise prescription and maximal oxygen uptake (VO2 max) have a role in risk-stratifying patients?
Irfan Ahmed
Clinical Medicine May 2020, 20 (3) 282-284; DOI: 10.7861/clinmed.2020-0111
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- ‘Exercise is medicine’
- How will public health measures impact patients' physical activity levels?
- What do we know about COVID-19 and high-risk patients?
- Could exercise capacity help to triage patients and fairly allocate resources during the COVID-19 outbreak?
- Can we physically precondition patients prior to infection?
- How could we practically test exercise capacity on a large scale?
- Formulating an exercise prescription
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