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Fit Is It in COVID-19, Future Pandemics, and Overall Healthy Living
Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Vol. 96Issue 1p7–9Published online: November 24, 2020
- Carl J. Lavie
- Fabian Sanchis-Gomar
- Ross Arena
Cited in Scopus: 23
Substantial evidence supports the importance of fitness, especially cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and muscular fitness, to prevent and to treat cardiovascular disease (CVD).¹ In fact, patients with various chronic diseases including obesity, dyslipidemia, and diabetes mellitus (DM) who present with a higher CRF often have a more favorable short- and long-term prognosis compared with individuals without these conditions but with low levels of CRF. This observation supports the importance of CRF as one of the strongest CVD risk factors or risk markers.