• DOI:10.1161/CIR.0000000000000461
Corpus ID: 3372949

Importance of Assessing Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Clinical Practice: A Case for Fitness as a Clinical Vital Sign A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

@article{Ross2016ImportanceOA,
  title={Importance of Assessing Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Clinical Practice: A Case for Fitness as a Clinical Vital Sign A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association},
  author={R. Ross and S. Blair and R. Arena and T. Church and J. Despr{\'e}s and B. Franklin and W. Haskell and L. Kaminsky and B. Levine and C. Lavie and J. Myers and J. Niebauer and R. Sallis and S. Sawada and X. Sui and U. Wisl{\o}ff},
  journal={Circulation},
  year={2016},
  volume={134},
  pages={e653–e699}
}

• R. Ross, S. Blair, +13 authors U. Wisløff
• Published 2016
• Medicine
• Circulation

Mounting evidence has firmly established that low levels of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) are associated with a high risk of cardiovascular disease, all-cause mortality, and mortality rates attributable to various cancers. A growing body of epidemiological and clinical evidence demonstrates not only that CRF is a potentially stronger predictor of mortality than established risk factors such as smoking, hypertension, high cholesterol, and type 2 diabetes mellitus, but that the addition of CRF… Expand

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