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Editorial
. 2021 May;7(2):e001644.
doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2021-001644.

Exercise, infection and rheumatic diseases: what do we know?

Leonard Calabrese  1 , David C Neiman  2
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Editorial

Exercise, infection and rheumatic diseases: what do we know?

Leonard Calabrese et al. RMD Open. 2021 May.
No abstract available

Keywords: epidemiology; immune system diseases; inflammation.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Exercise stimulates the ongoing exchange of leucocytes between the lymphoid tissues and the blood compartment and the activation of tissue macrophages. Cell art work: Blausen.com staff (2014). ‘Medical gallery of Blausen Medical 2014’. WikiJournal of Medicine 1 (2). DOI:10.15347/wjm/2014.010. ISSN 2002–4436.
Figure 2
Figure 2
The percentage difference in infectious disease incidence and mortality rates between physically active and inactive adults. Near-daily physical activity compared with inactivity has been linked to reduced incidence rates for influenza, the common cold and severe cases of COVID-19, with diminished mortality rates for pneumonia and other viral and bacterial infections.
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