Clinical Study

The Obesity Paradox and Cardiorespiratory Fitness

Figure 2

Multivariate hazard ratios for all-cause mortality by obesity status and fitness level. Each bar represents the relative risk after adjustment for age, ethnicity, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, family history of coronary artery disease, and cardiovascular medication use with the relative risk of nonobese (BMI 18.5–29.9 kg/m2) and fit (>9 METs) set at 1.0. Grey bars represent unfit (lowest third of distribution) and dark bars fit (upper two-thirds of distribution). Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals. Differed from reference: * 𝑃 < 0 . 0 5 ; ** 𝑃 < 0 . 0 1 .
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