Why the study?
Does higher cardiorespiratory fitness reduce cardiovascular disease events across all coronary artery calcium levels in generally healthy middle-age men?
Does higher cardiorespiratory fitness reduce cardiovascular disease events across all coronary artery calcium levels in generally healthy middle-age men?
Higher cardiorespiratory fitness attenuates cardiovascular disease risk regardless of coronary artery calcium levels in healthy middle-aged men.
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Hypothesis-generating for CRF benefits across CAC strata; prospective trials needed before changing risk stratification.
Radford et al. (2018) studied this question.
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