Physical Activity and Fitness in the Prevention and Management of Cardiometabolic Disease: Age, Race, and Sex Differences

Dear Colleagues,

Recent epidemiologic evidence supports a strong, inverse and independent association between physical activity or fitness and health outcomes in apparently healthy individuals and in patients with documented cardiovascular disease. This association applies across the spectra of age, race, and gender. The health benefits are in part due to the favorable impacts on both traditional and novel cardiovascular risk factors that are observed following increased physical activity patterns or structured exercise programs.

This Special Issue of Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine entitled “Physical Activity and Fitness in the Prevention and Management of Cardiometabolic Disease: Age, Race, and Gender Differences” will present high-quality, original research on the effects of physical activity and fitness on traditional and novel cardiometabolic risk factors, their clinical applications, and future directions. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: 

• Cardiovascular disease
• Heart failure
• Atrial fibrillation
• Stroke
• Sleep disorders
• Hypertension
• Microbiota 
• Chronic kidney disease
• Diabetes mellitus 
• Dyslipidemia
• Obesity 

Dr. Peter Kokkinos
Guest Editor

Manuscripts should be submitted via our online editorial system at https://imr.propub.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to start your submission. Manuscripts can be submitted now or up until the deadline. All papers will go through peer-review process. Accepted papers will be published in the journal (as soon as accepted) and meanwhile listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, reviews as well as short communications are preferred. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office to announce on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts will be thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. Please visit the Instruction for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) in this open access journal is 2200 USD. Submitted manuscripts should be well formatted in good English.