This quote sets off alarm bells for sensationalism: "People who do not perform very well on a treadmill test," Jaber said, "have almost double the risk of peop

This quote sets off alarm bells for sensationalism: "People who do not perform very well on a treadmill test," Jaber said, "have almost double the risk of people with kidney failure on dialysis." The quote doesn't appear to be part of the paper either. The first Google hit for all-cause kidney disease mortality says: "The absolute risk for death increased exponentially with decreasing renal function in these studies. The magnitude of the unadjusted increase in risk ranged from approximately 38% to >1100%" Those numbers are for non-dialysis patients. You'd expect the dialysis patients to be much worse due to the first sentence. The exercise paper says: "The increase in all-cause mortality associated with reduced CRF (low vs elite: adjusted HR, 5.04; 95% CI, 4.10-6.20; P < .001; below average vs above average: adjusted HR, 1.41; 95% CI, 1.34-1.49; P < .001) was comparable to or greater than traditional clinical risk factors." I don't think low vs elite is a fair interpretation of "not doing very well", so I'd take 41% as the increase in risk. That is very much not double 38-1100%. You'd assume it's certainly not double the exponentially worse-off dialysis patients. You wouldn't think 504% was either, even if you are charitable to the quote. The findings seem interestingly strong. Overplaying them further should not be necessary.