According to a new NTNU study, poor cardiorespiratory fitness could increase your risk of a future heart attack, even if you have no symptoms of a lifestyle illness today.
According to a new NTNU study, poor cardiorespiratory fitness could increase your risk of a future heart attack, even if you have no symptoms of a lifestyle illness today.
“We found a strong link between higher fitness levels and a lower risk of heart attack and angina pectoris over the nine years following the measurements that were taken,” says researcher Bjarne Nes in NTNU’s Cardiac Exercise Research Group (CERG).
The study results have been published in the renowned European Heart Journal.
Half the risk
“Even among people who seem to be healthy, the top 25 per cent of the most fit individuals actually have only half as high a risk as the least fit 25 per cent,” Nes says.
Read more at Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Image: Researchers use a treadmill and a special mask to measure a person's maximum oxygen uptake, which is considered an important measure of fitness. (Credit: Geir Mogen/NTNU)
