Change In Fitness More Important Than Bmi Over Time

Larry Husten, Forbes
Tue, 12/06/2011 - 10:47am

Experts have been debating the relative role of obesity and fitness in cardiovascular risk. Now a new report from the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study published in Circulation finds that maintaining or improving fitness significantly lowers CV risk irrespective of changes in BMI. Duck-chul Lee and colleagues followed 14,435 men for 11.4 years.

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