OK, the study results are not surprising, but they may be inspirational, if they can be understood. The November issue of hyperampersanded Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise reports on research that tracked the health of more than 11,000 women from 1970 to 2005, and attempted to correlate cardiorespiratory fitness, waist to height ratio, waist to hip ratio, and body mass index with, well, death, or as the researchers put it, "all cause mortality." The researchers devised a "hazard ratio" that would indicate the risk of "all cause mortality" for women in each of three fitness-related groups. They found that women in the fittest group had a hazard ratio of .54, women in the middle group had a hazard ratio of .60, and the women in the least fit group had a hazard ratio of 1.
Read more in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
What kind of gooblygook is this? What doesn’t the author write in a language that a person can understand.
Typo – The hazard ratio for the middle group should be 0.60, not 6.0
“…women in the middle group had a hazard ratio of 6.0”
I believe that should be 0.60
Conclusions: Low CardioRespiratoryFitness (CRF) in women was a significant independent predictor of all-cause mortality. Higher CRF was associated with lower mortality within each category of each adiposity exposure. Using adiposity measures as predictors of all-cause mortality in women may be misleading unless CRF is also considered.
Translate adiposity= how fat you are…
Conclusions: Low CardioRespiratoryFitness (CRF) in women was a significant independent predictor of all-cause mortality. Higher CRF was associated with lower mortality within each category of each adiposity exposure. Using adiposity measures as predictors of all-cause mortality in women may be misleading unless CRF is also considered.
Adiposity=how fat you are
A very poorly-written abstract, almost impenetrable, proving the old saying, “sedulously eschew obfuscatory hyper-verbosity and prolixity.”
ANYHOW I think it is saying that mortality (HR) in women is only directly correlated with how obese they are (BMI)for thos women in the worst 20% of the population tested for cardio-respiratory fitness (CRF). CRF was measured as “duration of a maximal exercise test”
In other words, being fat will kill women but only if they are also an out-of-shape wheezer. The wheezers can’t handle the extra load of being obese.
How fat a woman is does not increase her likelihood of dying unless she also has low cardiopulmonary fitness (CRF). If she does have a low CRF then mortality correlates with increasing body-mass index (BMI).
In other words, low CRF correlates with mortality, not how obese she is. Obesity however causes death by placing a greater load on people having low CRF.
Although you’ve tried to explain still this article is like reading greek and latin.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dolxfld6uQE Could you explain this is in layman language. “Fat woman die” or “person with weak heart and fat die” or??????