Open AccessCOVID-19 and physical activity: What is the relation between exercise immunology and the current pandemic situation?
Author(s) -
Guilherme Gomes Azizi,
Marco Orsini,
Sérgio Duarte Dortas,
Paulo Alberto dos Santos Vieira,
Ricardo Steiner De Carvalho,
Cláudio Sérgio da Rocha Pires,
Sebastião Carlos Ferreira Da Silva,
Bruno Mendes de Sá Pinto,
Carlos Eduardo Cardoso,
Adalgiza Mafra Moreno,
Marco Antônio Alves Azizi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista brasileira de fisiologia do exercício
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2675-1372
pISSN - 1677-8510
DOI - 10.33233/rbfe.v19i2.4115
Subject(s) - pandemic , leukocytosis , athletes , covid-19 , sports medicine , sports science , exercise physiology , immunology , medicine , psychology , physiology , virology , physical therapy , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak
Exercise immunology is a strong and mysterious science in sports medicine, but studies were origin more than a 100 years ago, when Schulte had already described an exercise-induced leukocytosis as early as 1893 [1]. Since then, both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies in humans have demonstrated the profound impact that exercise can have on the immune system. That is exactly why it is fundamentally important in this pandemic time to elucidate many questions and direct the athletes and non-athletes to the due care...
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