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Department of Medicine, University of Birmingham.
Br J Clin Pract. 1993 Jul-Aug;47(4):211-3.
The recent National Fitness Survey has drawn attention to the population's low level of physical (aerobic) fitness and low level of activity. About one-third of middle-aged men and one-half of middle-aged women in England are unfit for continuous walking at a normal pace of about 3 mph. Similar fitness levels were shown for the Welsh population. At the same time, coronary heart disease (CHD) accounts for about 26% of deaths in England, and for 2.5% of the NHS expenditure. The suggestion that low fitness levels and low levels of physical activity are associated with a high incidence of CHD has been widely voiced since Morris's first study, and has more recently been the subject of editorials in the British Heart Journal and the BMJ.
最近的国民健身调查引起了人们对民众低水平身体（有氧）健康状况和低活动量的关注。在英格兰，约三分之一的中年男性和一半的中年女性无法以约每小时3英里的正常速度持续行走。威尔士民众也呈现出类似的健康水平。与此同时，冠心病（CHD）在英格兰约占死亡人数的26%，并占国民保健制度支出的2.5%。自莫里斯的首次研究以来，低健康水平和低身体活动量与冠心病高发病率相关这一观点已被广泛提及，并且最近还成为了《英国心脏杂志》和《英国医学杂志》社论的主题。
