Authors: Michael Huerta¹; Itamar Grotto¹; Samuel Shemla¹; Isaac Ashkenazi¹; Ofer Shpilberg¹; Jeremy D. Kark²

Source: Military Medicine, Volume 169, Number 3, March 2004 , pp. 217-220(4)

Publisher: AMSUS - Association of Military Surgeons of the U.S.

Abstract:

We evaluated the level of fitness among a large population-based sample of Israeli men and women ages 18–25 years, within the framework of an ongoing survey of personnel discharged from military service in the Israel Defense Force. Aerobic capacity was predicted with the Astrand-Rhyming 6-minute cycle ergometer test and maximal oxygen uptake (VO_{2 max}) was estimated using the Astrand-Rhyming nomogram based on cardiac response to 6 minutes of constant submaximal cycle work. Mean ± SD VO_{2 max} values were 41.05 ± 10.52 mL/kg/min for men (range, 15–81 mL/kg/min) and 33.84 ± 7.60 mL/kg/min for women (range, 16–65 mL/kg/min). Smoking was found to be associated with lower VO_{2 max} among both men and women, whereas type of military service unit was unexpectedly not associated with physical fitness level.

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Israel Defense Force Medical Corps, Military Post 02149, Israel. 2: Hadassah Medical Organization and Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.

Publication date: 2004-03-01

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