Predictive Validity of a Fitness Fatness Index in Predicting Cardiovascular Disease and All-Cause Mortality

After excluding those with missing data for any of the algorithm variables, and those with a physician diagnosis of coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, heart attack, angina, stroke, cancer, hypertension, diabetes, liver disease, or emphysema, 9974 participants (20-85 years) remained and constituted the analytic sample. [...]to the original validation study comparing the FFI to other predictors of diabetes,1 future studies may benefit from investigating the predictive utility of the FFI compared with other established...