ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2013
Low cardiorespiratory fitness in African Americans: a health disparity risk factor?
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 51 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Severe Mental Illness: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2017Pooled it
- A Randomized Community-based Exercise Training Trial in African American Men: Aerobic Plus Resistance Training and Insulin Sensitivity in African American Men.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2020Trial
- A Culturally Tailored mHealth Intervention (MobileMen App) to Promote Physical Activity in African American Men: Protocol for a Comparative Effectiveness Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Biomarkers of aging: from molecules and surrogates to physiology and function.Physiological reviews · 2025Review
- The effect of acute hot water immersion on cutaneous peripheral microvascular responses in males of White-European, Black-African and South-Asian descent.Temperature (Austin, Tex.) · 2025Article
- Physical Activity, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, and the Obesity Paradox with Consideration for Racial and/or Ethnic Differences: A Broad Review and Call to Action.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Review
- Low body mass and high-quality sleep maximize the ability of aerobic fitness to promote improved cognitive function in older African Americans.Ethnicity & health · 2022Article
- Human plasma proteomic profiles indicative of cardiorespiratory fitness.Nature metabolism · 2021Article
- Food Access and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Metropolitan Atlanta Census Tracts With Residents at Low Risk and High Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: The Morehouse-Emory Cardiovascular Center for Health Equity Study.Preventing chronic disease · 2021Article
- Fit Is It in COVID-19, Future Pandemics, and Overall Healthy Living.Mayo Clinic proceedings · 2021Article
- Effects of resistance training on depression and cardiovascular disease risk in Black men: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Mental health and physical activity · 2019Article
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- Comparative Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Children: Racial Disparity May Begin Early in Childhood.Pediatric cardiology · 2019Article
- Association of Fitness With Racial Differences in Chronic Kidney Disease.American journal of preventive medicine · 2019Article
- The Influence of Active Gaming on Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Black and Hispanic Youth.The Journal of school health · 2018Article
- Racial Differences in the Association Between Nonexercise Estimated Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Incident Stroke.Mayo Clinic proceedings · 2018Article
- Socioeconomic Correlates and Determinants of Cardiorespiratory Fitness in the General Adult Population: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine - open · 2018Review
- Prognostic value of exercise capacity among patients with treated depression: The Henry Ford Exercise Testing (FIT) Project.Clinical cardiology · 2018Article
- Fitness adjusted racial disparities in central adiposity among women in the USA using quantile regression.Obesity science & practice · 2017Article
- Racial Differences in Weight Loss Among Adults in a Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention: Role of Diet and Physical Activity.Journal of physical activity & health · 2015Article
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Abstract
Low cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is a well-established risk factor for all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality. African Americans have higher rates of cardiovascular disease compared with their Caucasian counterparts. However, the extent to which lower CRF levels contribute to the excess risk in African Americans has not been fully explored. The purpose of this review is to: (i) explore the literature evaluating the relationship between CRF and mortality specifically in African American populations; and (ii) critically evaluate the studies which have compared CRF between African American and Caucasians in epidemiological studies and clinical trials. We have further discussed several potential mechanisms that may contribute to the observation of lower CRF levels in African American compared with Caucasian adults, including potential racial differences in physical activity levels, muscle fiber type distribution, and hemoglobin levels. If lower CRF is generally present in African Americans compared with Caucasians, and is of a clinically meaningful difference, this may represent an important public health concern.
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