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Cardiorespiratory Fitness as a Quantitative Predictor of All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular Events in Healthy Men and Women

S Kodama. JAMA. 2009.

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Better cardiorespiratory fitness was associated with lower all-cause and cardiovascular mortality; fitness of 7.9 METs or more was linked to substantially lower rates.

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Observational.

Source

doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.681 · PubMed 19454641

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