Cardiorespiratory Fitness as a Predictor of Dementia Mortality in Men and Women

There is evidence that physical activity may reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer disease and dementia. However, few reports have examined the physical activity-dementia association with objective measures of physical activity. Cardiorespiratory fitness (hereafter called fitness) is an objective reproducible measure of recent physical activity habits.We sought to determine whether fitness is associated with lower risk for dementia mortality...