Obesity, Underweight, and Smoking Are Associated with Worse Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Finnish Healthy Young Men: A Population-Based Study

BackgroundObesity and smoking are strongly associated with worse cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF). Most previous studies that have examined the association of body composition with CRF have neither assessed non-linearity nor separately examined the effects of underweight. Thus, very little is known o...

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Main Authors: Georgios Nikolakaros, Tero Vahlberg, Kari Auranen, Lauri Sillanmäki, Takis Venetoklis, Andre Sourander
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00206/full