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Physical fitness and risk for heart failure and coronary artery disease.

ABSTRACT: Multiple studies have demonstrated strong associations between cardiorespiratory fitness and lower cardiovascular disease mortality. In contrast, little is known about associations of fitness with nonfatal cardiovascular events.Linking individual participant data from the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study with Medicare claims files, we studied 20642 participants (21% women) with fitness measured at the mean age of 49 years and who survived to receive Medicare coverage from 1999 to 2009. Fitness was categorized into age- and sex-specific quintiles (Q) according to Balke protocol treadmill time with Q1 as low fitness. Fitness was also estimated in metabolic equivalents according to treadmill time. Associations between midlife fitness and hospitalizations for heart failure and acute myocardial infarction after the age of 65 years were assessed by applying a proportional hazards model to the multivariate failure time data. After 133514 person-years of Medicare follow-up, we observed 1051 hospitalizations for heart failure and 832 hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction. Compared with high fitness (Q4-5), low fitness (Q1) was associated with a higher rate of heart failure hospitalization (14.3% versus 4.2%) and hospitalization for myocardial infarction (9.7% versus 4.5%). After multivariable adjustment for baseline age, blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, body mass index, smoking status, and total cholesterol, a 1 unit greater fitness level in metabolic equivalents achieved in midlife was associated with ?20% lower risk for heart failure hospitalization after the age of 65 years (men: hazard ratio [95% confidence intervals], 0.79 [0.75-0.83]; P<0.001 and women: 0.81 [0.68-0.96]; P=0.01) but just a 10% lower risk for acute myocardial infarction in men (0.91 [0.87-0.95]; P<0.001) and no association in women (0.97 [0.83-1.13]; P=0.68).Fitness in healthy, middle-aged adults is more strongly associated with heart failure hospitalization than acute myocardial infarction outcomes decades later in older age.

SUBMITTER: Berry JD

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5152944 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Physical fitness and risk for heart failure and coronary artery disease.

Berry Jarett D JD Pandey Ambarish A Gao Ang A Leonard David D Farzaneh-Far Ramin R Ayers Colby C DeFina Laura L Willis Benjamin B

Circulation. Heart failure 20130701 4

<h4>Background</h4>Multiple studies have demonstrated strong associations between cardiorespiratory fitness and lower cardiovascular disease mortality. In contrast, little is known about associations of fitness with nonfatal cardiovascular events.<h4>Methods and results</h4>Linking individual participant data from the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study with Medicare claims files, we studied 20642 participants (21% women) with fitness measured at the mean age of 49 years and who survived to receive ...[more]

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