Researchers with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine reached this conclusion after analyzing data on almost 4,000 people ages 18 to 30 years old. The data had been collected during the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study. Study subjects who did poorly on treadmill tests were at higher likelihood of developing diabetes 20 years later.
"These young adults are setting the stage for chronic disease in middle age by not being physically fit and active," Professor Mercedes Carnethon, the report's lead author, wrote in the journal Diabetes Care. "People who have low fitness in their late teens and early twenties tend to stay the same later in life or even get worse. Not many climb out of that category."
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