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Mar 24 2023 This Week in Cardiology

This Week in Cardiology

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The Benefits of Exercise

The author studied veterans who had multiple exercise tests over the past 20 years. The main results were that an increase in fitness of approximately one met from the initial evaluation was associated with a progressively lower mortality risk regardless of the fitness status at baseline. Jack: I see this kind of study as a shining example of bias. No matter the statistical adjustments, people who gain fitness are extremely likely to have other factors that lead to longer life. And conversely, those individuals that lose fitness surely have other Factors that cause lower survival.

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