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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 23.
Published in final edited form as: Compr Physiol. 2012 Apr;2(2):1143–1211. doi: 10.1002/cphy.c110025

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Mortality risk at different exercise capacities. Significant reductions in mortality do not occur <4 metabolic equivalents of resting metabolism (METs), become less at ~4 to 6 METs and an asymptote occurring at ~10 METs in 15,000 U.S. veterans of wars. [Reproduced with permission from (278, 280)].