Chronic Disease Research Paper
Chronic disease: A disease that persists for a long time. This disease is can last up to 3 months or more, by the definition of the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics. Chronic diseases generally cannot be prevented by vaccines or cured by medication, nor do they just disappear. 88% of Americans over 65 years of age have at least one chronic health condition (as of 1998). Health damaging behaviors - particularly tobacco use, lack of physical activity, and poor eating habits - are major contributors to the leading chronic diseases.
Chronic diseases tend to become more common with age.
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If you have a chronic condition, you might have questions about exercising. How often can you exercise? Which exercises …show more content…
The strongest evidence exists for colon cancer, breast cancer, and cardiovascular diseases. The maximal magnitudes of the risk reduction reported were: 75% for breast cancer, 49% for cardiovascular and heart diseases, 35% for diabetes, 22% for colorectal cancer. Increased physical activity also prevented the weight gain associated with aging at least 2-times greater in individuals who were more active compared with those who were inactive. Limited new findings has been reported for the beneficial role of physical activity in fall-related injuries, depression and emotional distress.
[BACKGROUND]
Physical activity is widely recognized for the primary prevention of chronic diseases as well as in patient’s treatment and rehabilitation. Psychical activity for chronic disease has beneficial effects on an individual's health and well-being. The benefits of regular physical activity, the percentage of physically inactive comes from adults in the world, and is tremendously high. Environmental and policy approaches aimed to increase physical activity require continual stress of the epidemiological evidence from studies investigating disease mechanisms as well as controlled clinical trials.
To update the evidence that physical activity/exercise is important for reducing the chronic diseases and for mechanisms that may operate in the
Chronic diseases tend to become more common with age.
Website: [http://www.medicinenet.com]
If you have a chronic condition, you might have questions about exercising. How often can you exercise? Which exercises …show more content…
The strongest evidence exists for colon cancer, breast cancer, and cardiovascular diseases. The maximal magnitudes of the risk reduction reported were: 75% for breast cancer, 49% for cardiovascular and heart diseases, 35% for diabetes, 22% for colorectal cancer. Increased physical activity also prevented the weight gain associated with aging at least 2-times greater in individuals who were more active compared with those who were inactive. Limited new findings has been reported for the beneficial role of physical activity in fall-related injuries, depression and emotional distress.
[BACKGROUND]
Physical activity is widely recognized for the primary prevention of chronic diseases as well as in patient’s treatment and rehabilitation. Psychical activity for chronic disease has beneficial effects on an individual's health and well-being. The benefits of regular physical activity, the percentage of physically inactive comes from adults in the world, and is tremendously high. Environmental and policy approaches aimed to increase physical activity require continual stress of the epidemiological evidence from studies investigating disease mechanisms as well as controlled clinical trials.
To update the evidence that physical activity/exercise is important for reducing the chronic diseases and for mechanisms that may operate in the