Sedentarismo e inactividad física en la enfermedad cardiovascular.

Abstract

Introduction: A sedentary lifestyle or physical inactivity is considered when people do not expend more than 10% of the total energy used in daily physical activity. Objectives: To determine the effects of sedentary lifestyle and physical inactivity in patients with cardiovascular disease. Methods: The research was descriptive, non-experimental, mixed, cross-sectional and the sample consisted of 40 patients with cardiovascular disease from Hospital Clínica Kennedy and Hospital General Guasmo Sur. Results: The population was 47.5% men and 52.5% women, 55% of the population was between 60 and 80 years old, 25% between 40-60 years old, 12.5% between 80-100 years old and 7.5% between 20-40 years old. In the dynamometry of the right arm the result was 22 kg and 18 kg in the left arm, in the 6-minute walk test the distance covered in men was 195.78 meters and in women 213.14 meters, a value compared with the predicted distance obtained in men of 197.46 meters, and in women 231.1 meters. In the Borg scale, 15% of the population perceived effort as light, 60% classified it as heavy and 25% qualified it as very heavy. In the SF36 questionnaire the result was 56% in general health, in pain 73%, 47% in physical functioning, in energy and fatigue 64%, 46% in physical health, 63% in emotional well-being, 72% in social functioning and 74% in emotional problems. Conclusions: Physical activity improves physical fitness in patients with cardiovascular disease.