Researchers in Sweden have found an association between a person’s fitness as a teenager and their risk of heart attack in later life.
In a study of nearly 750,000 men, it was found that the more aerobically fit men were in late adolescence, the less likely they were to have a heart attack 30 or 40 years later.
The study, published online in the European Heart Journal found that the relationship between aerobic fitness and heart attack occurred regardless of the men’s body mass index (BMI) when they were teenagers. However, fit but overweight or obese men had a significantly higher risk of a heart attack than unfit, lean men.
