Adults over 60 years of age who had higher levels of cardio fitness lived longer than inappropriate adult

Adults over 60 years of age who had higher levels of cardio fitness lived longer than inappropriate adults, regardless of your levels of body fat, according to a study in the August 5 issue of JAMA. Previous studies have provided evidence that obesity and each physical inactivity can produce an increased risk of death in middle-aged adults. Whether this also applies to older adults is uncertain, background information in the article according to. Xuemei sui, m.d, of University of South Carolina, Columbia and colleagues examined mappings between cardio-fitness, various clinical measures of obesity (body fat) and death in older women and men. The study included 2,603 adults age 60 years or older (average age, 64.4 years; 19.8 percent women) inscribed in the Aerobics Center longitudinal study, a baseline health examination during 1979-2001 completed. Fitness was determined, by a treadmill exercise test and obesity of body index (BMI), waist circumference, measured judged and percent body fat. Low fitness was defined as the lowest fifth of sex-specific distribution of treadmill exercise test duration. There were 450 deaths during an average follow-up of 12 years. The researchers found that those who died were older, had low fitness levels and more heart cardiovascular risk factors as survivors. However, there were no significant differences in obesity action. Participants in higher fitness groups were in most cases of less likely to risk factors for cardiovascular disease, have high blood pressure, diabetes, or high cholesterol. Fit participants had lower death rates than unsuitable participants within each layer of obesity, except for two obesity groups. In most cases, the death rate for those with higher fitness were less than half of the prices for those who were not suitable. Greater fitness were reversed in connection with all cause to have death subgroups where a normal waist and in those with abdominal obesity and in those the normal percent body fat in both normal weight and obesity BMI and those the excessive percent body fat. "... we observed that fit people who (such as with BMI of 30, 0 34, 9 abdominal obesity, excessive body fat percent) were obese a lower risk of all cause mortality as incapable of normal weight or lean people had." Our data suggest that fitness levels at elderly influence obesity mortality Association ", the authors write. "Our data provide more evidence regarding the complex long-term relationship between fitness, body size and survive." It can be possible, all cause death rates in older adults, including those who are obese, by promoting regular physical activity such as brisk go for 30 minutes or more on most days of the week (approximately 8 kcal / kg weekly), most people from category low fitness hold. "Older adults should improve functional capacity to achieve a healthy lifestyle and live longer in better health enjoy allow." (JAMA. 2007; 298 (21): 2507-2516.) (Available pre-embargo to the media at www.jamamedia.org) Editor's Note: Please for contributions and affiliations, financial information, funding and support, see the article for more information, including other authors, author.

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