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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 13.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2001 May;33(5):754–761. doi: 10.1097/00005768-200105000-00012

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Relative risk for CHD or CVD in 7 physical fitness and 16 physical activity cohorts cited in the Report of the Surgeon General [57]. Sample percentages sorted from least to most fit or active, with the lowest category used as the referent. Several studies report CHD in addition to CVD endpoints (relative risk in order of lowest to highest percentage): Framingham Men [22] (1.00, 0.69, 0.60); Harvard Alumni Study [37] (1.00, 0.82, 0.64); LRC Mortality Follow-up Study [36] (1.00, 0.54, 0.54, 0.15); and U.S. Railroad study cohorts [52] for fitness (1.00, 0.88, 0.66, 0.69) and activity (1.00, 0.84, 0.74, 0.80).