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Background: Numerous epidemiological studies have suggested that both higher levels of cardiovascular fitness and physical activity are associated with a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, there is far less data that has simultaneously examined the associations of cardiovascular fitness and physical activity with the risk of CVD. Objective: The aim of this paper is to determine whether current physical fitness or weekly physical activity is more important for lowering CVD risk factors, regardless of ages, in healthy Japanese men and women. Participants: Most of the 338 men and 358 women that participated in this study resided in Toyota City. Measurements: Weekly physical activity was measured by an accelerometer attached to the subject's waist for one week. Meanwhile, to determine physical fitness, V 02 max was estimated by the sub-maximal cycle test. Major CVD risk factors included fasting triglycerides (TG), total cholesterol (TC), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c), low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c), apolipoprotein A-l (Apo A-I), Apolipoprotein B (Apo B), Apolipoprotein E (Apo E), systolic and diastolic blood pressures, and body fat content. Main results: The relationship between physical fitness and physical activity were positively related in both genders with a high degree of significance. Conventional CVD risk factors, as well as their correlations with physical fitness and physical activity, were found. Most of the individual risk factors were more closely associated with physical fitness, rather than with physical activity in both sexes after the data was age adjusted. Conclusions: The evidence indicated that the reduction of select- ed CVD risk factors were more closely linked to improved physical fitness than to physical activity in both genders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
