Author’s response to reviews Title: ASSOCIATION BETWEEN CARDIORESPIRATORY FITNESS AND METABOLIC RISK FACTORS IN A POPULATION WITH MILD TO SEVERE OBESITY Authors:

Association between cardiorespiratory fitness and metabolic risk factors in a population with mild to severe obesity

Background Previous literature suggests the beneficial effects of fitness on abdominal obesity may be attenuated in obesity and abolished in severe obesity. It is unclear whether the beneficial association between fitness and health is similarly present in those with mild and severe obesity. Methods Patients from the Wharton Medical Clinic (n = 853) completed a clinical examination and maxima...

Author's response to reviews Title: Physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and metabolic syndrome in adolescents: a cross-sectional study. Authors:

Title: Physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and metabolic syndrome in adolescents: a cross-sectional study.

Author's response to reviews Title: Low cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with metabolic syndrome independent of physical activity in Hong Kong Chinese midlife women Authors:

Relationship between Quality of Life and Cardiorespiratory Endurance in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Background & Aims: Diabetes is a metabolic disease characterized by chronic hyperglycemia and impaired metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins. This disease is caused by defects in insulin secretion, insulin function, or both (1, 2). This chronic disease can have serious short-term and long-term consequences that affect the health and quality of life (QOL) of patients (3). Type 2 diabe...

Cardiorespiratory fitness, adiposity, and hypertension.

T he authors evaluated whether the effects of cardiorespiratory fitness and adiposity jointly are related to mortality in hypertensive men.1 They found that the effect of cardiorespiratory fitness is a powerful modifier of the association between adiposity and mortality in men with hypertension. It has been shown, in a well-known long-term prospective study in a general population, that cardior...