Longitudinal Patterns of Cardiorespiratory Fitness Predict the Development of Hypertension Among Men and Women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most of the existing literature has linked a baseline cardiorespiratory fitness or change between baseline and one follow-up measurement of cardiorespiratory fitness to hypertension. The purpose of the study is to assess the association between longitudinal patterns of cardiorespiratory fitness changes with time and incident hypertension in adult men and women.

Methods

Participants were aged 20 to 82 years, were free of hypertension during the first 3 examinations, and received at least 4 preventive medical examinations at the Cooper Clinic in Dallas, Texas, from 1971 to 2006. They were classified into 1 of 5 groups based on all of the measured cardiorespiratory fitness values (in metabolic equivalents) during maximal treadmill tests. Logistic regression was used

SUBMITTER: Sui X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5362290 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature