TY - JOUR AU - Raza, Ali AU - Sajjad, Sajjad Ali AU - Rana, Arif Ali AU - Ijaz, Arshia AU - Asif, Muhammad AU - Zulfiqar, Abdullah PY - 2021/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Cardiovascular Fitness Assessment through 3 Minutes Step Test in Adults of Lahore during COVID-19 Pandemic JF - THE THERAPIST (Journal of Therapies & Rehabilitation Sciences) JA - TT VL - 2 IS - 2 SE - Original Article DO - 10.54393/tt.v2i2.28 UR - https://thetherapist.com.pk/index.php/tt/article/view/28 SP - 19-23 AB - <p>At the end of the year, 2019 world witnessed a disease, which is still affecting the world, this disease was named Corona Virus Disease -19 (COVID-19). It is a highly infectious disease that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome. <strong>Objective: </strong>To find out the impact of COVID-19 on the cardiac fitness of young and middle-aged adults.<strong> Methods: </strong>A cross-sectional study was conducted at ON-Campus Physiotherapy Clinic at University of Management and Technology, Lahore. Convenient sampling was used. The sample size was 437. Healthy participants from both genders aging 17-45 years were recruited in the study. A self-designed questionnaire validated through a pilot study was used to record the data. Three minutes step test was performed and pre and post-test Cardiac rate were recorded. IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows was used to record and analyze all data.<strong> Results: </strong>Results showed that the female participants were 271 (59.7%) while males were 176(41.3%), young adults proportion was 76% while middle-aged adults was 24%.The overall results of the post-test 3-minutes step test show that a majority of the population30.7 % (n=134) had excellent cardiac rate, a good proportion of the sample had the same value for&nbsp; Good and above-average cardiac rates (f=22.4 %,&nbsp; n= 98)&nbsp; while fewer number participants fall in rest of the categories such as average, below average, poor and very poor ( 12. %, 7.1%, 3.0 %, 2.3 %) respectively.<strong> Conclusions: </strong>The study concluded that the overall cardiac capacity of young and older adults is not affected by the pandemic but the females have a better cardiac condition as compared to men.</p> ER -