How did the service determine the risk levels?
Air Force exercise physiologists and preventive medicine physicians developed a new health-related physical fitness test with science-based criterion standards for aerobic fitness and body composition, a first in DoD history. These standards provide health risk ratios that indicate a susceptibility to cardiovascular diseases, Type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers; diseases that affect Air Force medical care cost; and member productivity and lost duty time. The health risk ratios indicate high, moderate, and low risk for disease using published scientific data as the basis for age and gender specific thresholds. Movement from High to Moderate or Moderate to Low health risk signifies an improvement in fitness and a reduction in health risk with a corresponding important reduction in health care cost. The critically important Moderate zone identifies “creeping” health problems earlier in a servicemember’s life cycle providing a genuine window for successful intervention and prevention.
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