Being fit as a teen didn’t seem to protect against hardening of the neck arteries when people got older.

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Physical fitness in male adolescents and atherosclerosis in middle age: a population-based cohort study

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2024 Feb 14

This study found that being fit as a teen helps protect the heart’s arteries later in life, but doesn’t seem to help protect the neck arteries. So the claim that fitness’s benefits might only be for heart arteries is supported.

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Physical fitness in male adolescents and atherosclerosis in middle age: a population-based cohort study

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DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2023-107663

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