Sports and Health, Second Edition
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School of Health and Caring Sciences, University of West Attica, 12243 Athens, Greece
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Institute of Primary Care, University of Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland
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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(14), 8435; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148435
Submission received: 5 July 2022
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Accepted: 8 July 2022
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Published: 10 July 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2nd Edition: Sports and Health)
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) has increased its publications of scientific papers related to exercise; a search of Pubmed (on 22 June 2022) using IJERPH and exercise as keywords showed 1788 entries for 2021 compared to 80 entries in 2016 [1]. This increase over the last five years is characteristic of the actual multi-disciplinary scientific interest in the role of exercise in health. Moreover, the first edition of our Special Issue ‘Sport and Health’ was successful, publishing 52 papers [2], the paper of Lesser and Nienhuis [3] being the most cited one (293 citations within a two-year period). This scientific interest corresponds to an ongoing increase in participation in sports, e.g., 236 men and 8 women competed in the Berlin Marathon in 1974 compared to 28,373 men and 12,268 women in 2018 [4], and reflects a broad interest in examining the relationship between health and exercise. Therefore, the aim of the present Special Issue [5] is to develop an updated article collection on the relationship between health and sports participation across all lifestyles, with an emphasis on recreational athletes, including studies on the role of COVID-19 [6].
Funding
This research received no external funding.
Acknowledgments
The voluntary contribution of all authors, reviewers and editors to the Special Issue “Sports and Health II” of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/part_II_sports_health) is gratefully acknowledged.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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