Effect of Fitness and Overweight on Risk for Death
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- Principal Investigator
- June Stevens
june_stevens@unc.edu
- Project Identifier
- Fitness, Fatness, and Mortality—SIP
9–00
- Status: Not Active
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Using data from an earlier study (Lipids Research Clinics Study
1972-1976) and from follow-up about 20 years later, researchers examined the
effects of cardiorespiratory fitness and overweight on death from
cardiovascular disease or from all causes among more than 5,000 men and
women in the United States. Being either unfit (measured by a treadmill
test) or overweight (measured as body mass index) or both increased the risk
for death for all participants, adjusted for age, educational attainment,
smoking status, alcohol use, and diet. Being fit weakened but did not
reverse the increased risk for death associated with overweight. The same
results were found when the data for the American men were assessed against
those for a comparable sample of men in Russia.
