Tag: cardiorespiratory fitness

  • Boosting cardio fitness can cut mortality risk by up to 30%

    Discovery Vitality’s head of wellness, Dr Mosima Mabunda, has emphasised the importance of regularly measuring cardiorespiratory fitness, or VO2 max, akin to monitoring blood pressure, glucose, and cholesterol levels. Enhancing fitness can significantly reduce mortality risk, with even moderate improvements in VO2 max lowering the risk of death by 21% to 30%, as revealed by recent research from Discovery Vitality.…

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