Researchers at Johns Hopkins and the Henry Ford Health System report evidence that higher levels of physical fitness may not only reduce risk of heart attacks and death from all causes, but also possibly improve the chances of survival after a first attack.
The findings, based on medical records data gathered from more than 2,000 men and women, are described in the online Feb. 1, 2016 edition of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
"We knew that fitter people generally live longer, but we now have evidence linking fitness to survival after a first heart attack," says Michael Blaha, M.D.
