Dr. Andy Galpin

I grabbed another study for you also in JAMA far more recently called the Association of Cardiorespiratory Fitness with Long-Term Mortality Among Adults Undergoing Exercise Treadmill Testing.

And this is actually going to tell you a similar story, but wanted to show you how even the studies that are a little bit different are going to have the same take-home message.

In this particular analysis, now they've got over 122,000 patients.

So

Okay, great.

Maybe there was something unique about Blair and his little population of 15,000 people or so.

What about if we 10X that number roughly?

Do we see the same basic results?

And the answer is effectively yes.

So in this, almost 14,000 people died throughout the course of the study.

So we're getting same kind of idea, pretty healthy people.

Some are going to die, but what does it really look like in terms of the folks that stayed alive and those that did not?

I'll zoom you all the way down to the end to not make it so painstaking as the previous one.

But similar stuff here.

In fact, it's even more jarring because they're able to do more in-depth analysis here of some of those other cofactors, which is what I want to highlight.

So...

You know, directly from the paper again here, the increase in all-cause mortality is associated with reduced cardiorespiratory fitness, which was comparable to or greater than traditional clinical risk factors such as coronary artery disease, smoking, and diabetes.

Now, I'm certainly not trying to tell you that as long as you're in shape, that it's okay if you smoke or do anything else.

Again, just from this one particular study, really profound there, right?

The cardiovascular fitness, again, VO2 max,