By Mike Bassett
Source Medpagetoday
Improving cardiorespiratory fitness may lower men’s prostate cancer risk, results from a Swedish study suggested.
The retrospective study showed that an overall increase in absolute cardiorespiratory fitness (as measured by changes in VO2max) was associated with a 2% reduced risk of prostate cancer incidence (HR 0.98, 95% CI 0.96-0.99), when adjusted for baseline fitness, age, education, year of last test, BMI, and smoking.
However, the study also showed that a change in cardiorespiratory fitness had no association with prostate cancer mortality.