> The correlation was true regardless of the patient's age, the presence or absence of cardiovascular risk like high blood pressure or other health conditions.

> The correlation was true regardless of the patient's age, the presence or absence of cardiovascular risk like high blood pressure or other health conditions. Perhaps we should say that a sedentary lifestyle is by itself a cardiovascular risk factor, even if it affects the majority of the population. The same thing goes for body weight: even if the majority of adults in the US are overweight, we don't redefine that as the new normal weight, for good physiological and medical reasons. Perhaps with physical activity we have already normalized an unhealthy lifestyle.