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Men who improve their fitness might lower their odds of getting prostate cancer, according to a new Swedish study.
Specifically, improving cardiorespiratory fitness by 3% or more annually over three years reduced the chances of men developing prostate cancer by 35%, compared to those whose fitness dropped by 3% each year.
Cardiorespiratory fitness is a measure of how the heart and lungs deliver oxygen to muscles during exercise.
The decrease held true no matter how fit the men were at the beginning of the study period, according to the findings published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Study researchers from the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences looked at information on more than 57,000 Swedish men enrolled in a health database that began in 1982. The men took at least two fitness tests to measure how much oxygen they used during vigorous exercise – more meant better fitness.
“They want to aim for more vigorous intensity activities — that’s activities that we would do and we would struggle to maintain a conversation with a friend,” said Kate Bolam, a co-author and researcher at the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences.“It could be line dancing if that gets your heart rate up and you think it’s fun and you’re going to do it regularly.”
Previous research has linked exercise to a lower risk of cancer in general.
Sources:
- British journal of sports medicine: “association between change in cardiorespiratory fitness and prostate cancer incidence and mortality in 57 652 swedish men.”
- NBC News: “Improving fitness may be linked to a 35% lower risk of prostate cancer, study finds.”
Important Notice: This article was also published at www.webmd.com by Jay Croft where all credits are due.
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