Accuracy of Nonexercise Prediction Equations for Assessing Longitudinal Changes to Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Apparently Healthy Adults: BALL ST Cohort
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- 2 June 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Journal of the American Heart Association
- Vol. 9 (11), e015117
- https://doi.org/10.1161/jaha.119.015117
Abstract
Background Repeated assessment of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) improves mortality risk predictions in apparently healthy adults. Accordingly, the American Heart Association suggests routine clinical assessment of CRF using, at a minimum, nonexercise prediction equations. However, the accuracy of nonexercise prediction equations over time is unknown. Therefore, we compared the ability of nonexercise prediction equations to detect changes in directly measured CRF. Methods and Results The sample included 987 apparently healthy adults from the BALL ST (Ball State Adult Fitness Longitudinal Lifestyle Study) cohort (33% women; average age, 43.1±10.4 years) who completed 2 cardiopulmonary exercise tests ≥3 months apart (3.2±5.4 years of follow‐up). The change in estimated CRF (eCRF) from 27 distinct nonexercise prediction equations was compared with the change in directly measured CRF. Analysis included Pearson product moment correlations, SEE values, intraclass correlation coefficient values, Cohen's κ coefficients, γ coefficients, and the Benjamini‐Hochberg procedure to compare eCRF with directly measured CRF. The change in eCRF from 26 of 27 equations was significantly associated to the change in directly measured CRF (P<0.001), with intraclass correlation coefficient values ranging from 0.06 to 0.63. For 16 of the 27 equations, the change in eCRF was significantly different from the change in directly measured CRF. The median percentage of participants correctly classified as having increased, decreased, or no change in CRF was 56% (range, 39%–61%). Conclusions Variability was observed in the accuracy between nonexercise prediction equations and the ability of equations to detect changes in CRF. Considering the appreciable error that prediction equations had with detecting even directional changes in CRF, these results suggest eCRF may have limited clinical utility.Keywords
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