Fitness, fatness, and systolic blood pressure: Data from the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study

Modifying risk factors to delay or prevent hypertension is critical for subsequent cardiovascular risk reduction. Therefore, understanding the independent and joint associations between cardiorespiratory fitness, obesity, and systolic blood pressure (SBP) is of major significance. In this study, we assessed the relative contribution of body mass index (BMI) and cardiorespiratory fitness to SBP in a large, healthy population.Blood pressure, BMI,...