Exercise capacity, cardiovascular and metabolic risk of the sample of German police officers in a descriptive international comparison

Conclusions: To our knowledge, this study was one of the first to assess data on cardiovascular health, metabolic syndrome and cardiorespiratory status of police officers in Germany. The results of our study demonstrated an increased cardiovascular and metabolic risk and decreased cardiorespiratory fitness in German police officers. The present study results underline the need to implement health-promoting interventions and concepts like corporate sports activities or nutrition courses to counteract cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors. We have to reduce the subsequent development of cardiovascular and metabolic disease in this occupational group.PMID:34220304 | PMC:PMC8241769 | DOI:10.7150/ijms.60696
Source: International Journal of Medical Sciences - Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Source Type: research