It's Time to (Again) Recognize the Considerable Clinical and Public Health Significance of Cardiorespiratory Fitness

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¹ Clinical Exercise Physiology, Fisher Institute of Health and Well-Being, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA; Healthy Living for Pandemic Event Protection (HL - PIVOT) Network, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Electronic address: kaminskyla@bsu.edu.
² Department of Kinesiology, George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon, USA; Health Enhancement Research Organization, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
³ Healthy Living for Pandemic Event Protection (HL - PIVOT) Network, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Cardiac Rehabilitation, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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Leonard A Kaminsky et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2023.

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. 2023 Mar 28;81(12):1148-1150.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2023.02.004.

¹ Clinical Exercise Physiology, Fisher Institute of Health and Well-Being, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA; Healthy Living for Pandemic Event Protection (HL - PIVOT) Network, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Electronic address: kaminskyla@bsu.edu.
² Department of Kinesiology, George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon, USA; Health Enhancement Research Organization, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
³ Healthy Living for Pandemic Event Protection (HL - PIVOT) Network, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Cardiac Rehabilitation, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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Keywords: cardiorespiratory fitness change; cardiovascular disease; mortality.

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Funding Support and Author Disclosures The authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.

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