Cardiorespiratory Fitness is Essential to Reduce Risk of Coronary Heart Disease (1 of 2) (IMAGE)
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Combinations of cardiorespiratory fitness and triglyceride/HDL ratio with coronary heart disease mortality in 40,269 men followed for 16.6 years, Cooper Center Longitudinal Study, 1978-2010. The higher the bar, the higher the risk of dying from CHD. For example, in the first triglyceride/HDL ratio category, low fit men were a little more than twice as likely to die from CHD than high fit men in that same category. Within each of the four triglyceride/HDL categories, the lowest fit men have the highest risk of dying from CHD, while moderately to highly fit men have a lower risk.
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