A new study has revealed that physical fitness in your teens can reduce the risk of heart attack later in life suggesting that unfit lean men are better protected against heart attacks than fit obese people. In the study Gabriel Hogstrom Anna Nordstrom and professor at the Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation Geriatrics at Umea University Peter Nordstrom analyzed data from 743498 Swedish men who received a medical examination at the age of 18 when they were conscripted into national service from 1969 to 1984. The men’s fitness level was measured with a bicycle test in which the resistance
