The Relationship of Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Physical Activity, and Coronary Artery Calcification to Cardiovascular Disease Events in CARDIA Participants.
Yariv GerberKelley Pettee GabrielDavid R JacobsJennifer Y LiuJamal S RanaBarbara SternfeldJohn Jeffrey CarrPaul D ThompsonStephen SidneyPublished in: European journal of preventive cardiology (2024)
In middle-aged adults, CRF and MVPA demonstrated an inverse association with CAC incidence but did not mitigate the increased cardiovascular risk associated with CAC, indicating that CAC is not benign in individuals with higher CRF or MVPA levels.