Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Highly Sensitive Cardiac Troponin Levels in a Preventive Medicine Cohort

BackgroundCardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and highly sensitive cardiac troponin T (hs‐cTnT) are associated with risk of all‐cause and cardiovascular mortality as well as incident heart failure. A link of low CRF to subclinical cardiac injury may explain this association. We hypothesized that CRF wou...

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Main Authors: Laura F. DeFina, Benjamin L. Willis, Nina B. Radford, Robert H. Christenson, Christopher R. deFilippi, James A. de Lemos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-12-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
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Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.116.003781