Adolescent Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Future Work Ability.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Although research indicates that low fitness in youth is associated with a higher risk of chronic disability in men, the association of fitness in adolescence with work ability in working men and women remains unknown.

Objective

To examine the associations of adolescent health-related physical fitness with future work ability.

Design, setting, and participants

This 45-year observational cohort study, conducted in Finland, examined the direct and indirect longitudinal associations of objectively measured health-related fitness in adolescence (in 1976) with self-reported work ability and sickness absence in early middle age (in 2001) and the Work Ability Index in late middle age (in 2021). A countrywide stratified random baseline sample included fitness measu

SUBMITTER: Laakso PTT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10973892 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature