Steve Farrell, PhD, FACSM, senior investigator in the research division at The Cooper Institute in Dallas and coauthor of the study titled “Moderate to High Levels of Cardiorespiratory Fitness Attenuate the Effects of Triglyceride to High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Ratio on Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in Men,” published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
Cardiorespiratory fitness, or CRF, is an important measure of heart health—here’s why it should be one of the tests you get at your next check-up.
