Physical Activity for Heart Disease and Cardiovascular Disease
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2025) | Viewed by 921
Special Issue Editors
Interests: exercise training; health; older people; sport physiology; aging; fitness
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: exercise training; health; older people; sport physiology; aging; fitness
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to contribute to the Special Issue titled “Physical Activity for Heart Disease and Cardiovascular Disease” in Healthcare (IF 2.4, JCR Q2), an open access journal published by MDPI.
In this Special Issue, we request original investigations and reviews that introduce novel approaches for defining how physical activity, when performed regularly, strengthens the heart muscle and reduces cardiovascular risk factors. Since 2016, 27.5% of the global adult population and 81% of adolescents have failed to meet the current guidelines for weekly exercise. Physical inactivity was responsible for 13.4 million disability-adjusted life years worldwide.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Coronary artery disease;
- Cardiorespiratory fitness;
- Cardiovascular disease;
- Mental health; cognition;
- Pregnancy;
- Physical activity strategies.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Ana De Fátima Pereira
Dr. Luis Leitão
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Healthcare is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- aerobic exercise
- cardiorespiratory fitness
- cardiovascular diseases
- exercise
- physical activity
- resistance exercise
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