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The Cooper Center Longitudinal Study has produced more than 700 papers published in peer-reviewed journals over the past 50 years. The following are few key publications proving fitness is a vital sign of health.
Physical Fitness and All-cause Mortality. A Prospective Study of Healthy Men and Women. JAMA. 1989 Nov 3;262(17):2395-401.
Changes in Physical Fitness and All-cause Mortality: A Prospective Study of Healthy and Unhealthy Men. JAMA, 273: 1093-1098, 1995.
Cardiorespiratory Fitness is Inversely Associated with the Incidence of Metabolic Syndrome: A Prospective Study of Men and Women. Circulation. 2005 Jul 26;112(4):505-12.
Midlife Fitness and the Development of Chronic Conditions in Later Life. Arch Intern Med. 2012 Sep 24;172(17):1333-40.
The Association Between Midlife Cardiorespiratory Fitness Levels and Later-Life Dementia: A Cohort Study. Ann Intern Med. 2013 Feb 5;158(3):162-8.
Midlife Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Incident Cancer and Survival After Cancer in Men.” JAMA Oncology. 2015;1(2):231-237.
Association Between Midlife Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Risk of Stroke: The Cooper Center Longitudinal Study. Stroke. 2016 Jul;47(7):1720-6.
Association of Midlife Cardiorespiratory Fitness with Incident Depression and Cardiovascular Death After Depression in Later Life. JAMA Psychiatry. 2018 Sep 1;75(9):911-917.
Cardiorespiratory fitness in middle age and health care costs in later life. J Am Coll Cardiol, 2015 Oct 27;66(17):1876-85.
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