Study: Obese, Highly Fit Vets With Lowest Mortality Risk

Fitness and fatness as mortality predictors in healthy older men: the veterans exercise testing study. 05/29/09. In this cohort of elderly male veterans, we observed independent and joint inverse relations of BMI and CRF to mortality. This warrants further investigation of fitness, fatness, and mortality interactions in older persons. Free full text. The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences via PubMed