Good Fitness protects the heart

Even if you are healthy and have no signs of cardiovascular disease, it is advisable to give the stamina and Fitness of Eight. A recent study from Norway suggests.

The long-term study shows that a good cardio-respiratory Fitness and the risk for a heart attack, and other heart-circulation-reduces diseases. Under cardio-respiratory Fitness refers to supply is the ability of the circulatory and respiratory systems, the body load sufficiently with oxygen. Within an average of nine years, 3.3 percent of the study patients participants, cardiovascular disorders, died or needed blood vessels treatment because of locked blood. It clearly showed that a good cardio-respiratory Fitness has a preventive effect: "We have, in nine years of follow-up in healthy adults, a strong correlation between higher Fitness and a lower risk for problems in the coronary vessels festgestellt" Dr. Bjarne Nes, a researcher at the Norwegian University of science and technology says.

In the case of participants, who were among the 25 percent of those with the highest cardiorespiratory Fitness, reduces the risk by about half in comparison to the 25 percent with the lowest fitness level. Even small improvements in Fitness led to the results reported significant effects.

For the study, 4527 healthy people without pre-existing diseases of the lungs, the cardiovascular system, cancer, or high blood were subjected to pressure and a fitness test. Over an average of nine years, the scientists investigated disease relationships between cardiorespiratory Fitness and the incidence of cardiovascular.

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