“Many of us believe that prevention is better than trying to identify drugs for people after they get cancer,” said Dr. Peter Shields, deputy director of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and interim chairman of the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. “As we understand risk factors better, it may be possible to personalize cancer prevention.”

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It’s a largely hidden population that neither the government nor medical organizations had ever attempted to fully count, and the findings promise to help health authorities understand the scope of need.
“Paralysis is not rare,” said Dr. Edwin Trevathan, disabilities chief at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which helped design the study. “These data demand that we recommit … to help this population.”

Dr. Peter Kokkinos from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, D.C., and colleagues say their findings show a strong association between increased exercise capacity and lower mortality risk.
Between 1986 and 2007, 1703 African American men and 1445 Caucasian men with type 2 diabetes completed a maximal exercise test. This classified them as “low-fit,” “moderate-fit,” or “high-fit.”