Study Links Aerobic Fitness in Young Adulthood to Healthier Arteries Decades Later A report from mindbodygreen described a study published in Scientific Reports that tracked adults for nearly 30 years and found that higher aerobic fitness in young adulthood was associated with healthier arteries in later life. The study, which drew on data from the Swedish Longitudinal Physical Activity and Fitness Cohort, measured aerobic capacity, known as VO2 max, in participants at age 34 and again at age 52. At age 63, researchers assessed arterial stiffness using pulse wave velocity, a marker of how elastic the arteries had become. According…

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