Fitness versus fatness, round ?

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Hi All,

See the latest that I have seen on the fitness versus fatness

story.

What is going on in the Russians that may differ?

It being a prospective study comforted.

Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2004 Sep 14 [Epub ahead of print]

Associations of fitness and fatness with mortality in Russian and

American men

in the lipids research clinics study.

s J, Evenson KR, O, Cai J, R.

....Prospective closed cohort. SUBJECTS:: 1359 Russian men and 1716 US

men aged

40-59 y at baseline (1972-1977) ... body mass index (BMI) ...

proportional

hazard models that

included covariates for age, education, smoking, alcohol intake and

dietary keys

score. All-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality were

assessed

through 1995.

....In Russian men, fitness was associated with all-cause

and CVD mortality, but fatness was not. For mortality from all

causes, compared

to the fit-not fat, the adjusted hazard ratios were 0.87 (95% CI:

0.55, 1.37)

among the fit-fat, 1.86 (95% CI: 1.31, 2.62) among the unfit-not fat

and 1.68

(95% CI: 1.06, 2.68) among the unfit-fat. Among US men, the same

hazard ratios

were 1.40 (95% CI: 1.07, 1.83), 1.41 (95% CI: 1.12, 1.77) and 1.54

(95% CI:

1.24, 2.06), respectively. There were no statistically significant

interactions

between fitness and fatness in either group of men for all-cause or

CVD

mortality.

.... The effects of fitness on mortality may be more robust

across populations than are the effects of fatness.

PMID: 15365584 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Cheers, Al Pater.