Your "Cardio Fitness" Level May Predict Heart Disease

Good data keeps being published about daily exercise.  In nearly all studies, doing some sort of physical activity every day is associated with lower rates of disease.  Recently data was published in the European Heart Journal looking at cardiovascular aerobic fitness, and heart disease.

Per Jordan Smith at Bicycling, "...they discovered that people in the top 25 percent of cardio fitness levels had a nearly 50 percent lower risk of heart attack ... This remained true even after researchers adjusted for those other factors that may influence heart risk.

That means that even people who were deemed “healthy” in other aspects—say, their blood pressure was in the normal range, and they were nonsmokers—were still at greater heart risk if their cardio fitness levels were poor."

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