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The rapidly-evolving outbreak of the new Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) worldwide, combined with its potential severity, led the World Health Organization (WHO) to characterize it as a pandemic, conducting several countries to adopt containment strategies to curb the pandemic, such as quarantine and stringent social distancing. In addition to essential preventive measures, public policies aimed at reducing cardiovascular (CV) risk factors will be required during and after this infectious scenario. In this context, cardiovascular prevention strategies will have to be strengthened, since they are crucial for the reduction of medium and long-term risk of CV mortality.

The health-damaging potential of the sedentary behavior pattern emerging from social confinement has posed another hurdle in the fight against the SARS-CoV-2, and its impact on the severity of the disease should not be neglected. It is widely known that sedentary behavior is associated with an increased risk of all-cause CV and cancer mortality 1 1. Patterson R, McNamara E, Tainio M, de Sá TH, Smith AD, Sharp SJ, et al. Sedentary behaviour and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality, and incident type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and dose response meta-analysis. Eur J Epidemiol. 2018; 33 (9): 811-29.. Since the beginning of the pandemic, a high prevalence of physical inactivity-associated comorbidities in COVID-19 2 2. Zhou F, Yu T, Du R, Fan G, Liu Y, Liu Z, et al. Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study. Lancet. 2020; 395 (10229): 1054-62.