Article

Over the last decades, more and more evidence is accumulated that physical
activity (PA) and exercise interventions are essential components in primary and
secondary prevention for cardiovascular disease.
However, it is less clear
whether and which type of PA and exercise intervention (aerobic exercise, dynamic
resistive exercise, or both) or characteristic of exercise (frequency, intensity,
time or duration, and volume) would yield more benefit in achieving
cardiovascular health. The present paper, as the first of a series of three, will
make specific recommendations on the importance of these characteristics for
cardiovascular health in the population at large. The guidance offered in this
series of papers is aimed at medical doctors, health practitioners,
kinesiologists, physiotherapists and exercise physiologists, politicians, public
health policy makers, and the individual member of the public. Based on previous
and the current literature, recommendations from the European Association on
Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation are formulated regarding type,
volume, and intensity of PA and exercise.

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