Periodicals>Journal Article: Lakoski, Willis, Barlow, Leonard, Gao, Radford, Farrell, Douglas, Berry, DeFina, Jones , Midlife Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Incident Cancer, and Survival After Cancer in Men, JAMA Oncology, Retrieved on 2015-03-31Source Material [oncology.jamanetwork.com]
Folksonomies: health fitness Memes
31 MAR 2015
Cardiorespiratory Fitness (CRF) Lowers Cancer Risk
A well-established, graded, inverse association exists between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) as well as all-cause mortality in numerous healthy and clinical adult populations.1- 3 Compared with those classified in the lowest CRF category (<7.9 metabolic equivalents [METs]), individuals in the highest CRF category (?10.9 METs) have a 1.6- to 1.7-fold lower risk of CVD and all-cause mortality, respectively.4 Accordingly, measurement of CRF via forma...
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From Time Magazine article on the study:
Here’s the best part: it doesn’t take a lot of exercise to have a big health impact, Lakoski found. “Just a small improvement in fitness made a difference in survival of those that developed cancer,” she says. Compared to men who could run 12-minute miles on the treadmill at age 50, men who ran slightly faster 11.5-minute miles had an additional 10% decrease in cancer death and an extra 25% decrease in cardiovascular death among those who developed cancer in the study.
