Exercise benefits, specifically cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength, and muscle mass, are greater than those from smoking cessation, hypertension management, or lipid management when considering mortality.

“Um, if you simply look at the data um there's really no intervention we have including smoking sessation, management of hypertension, management of lipids, uh reduction of type 2 diabetes. All of those things have a significant impact on either disease specific or all-c cause mortality. Um but when you look at cardiovascular fitness, when you look at muscular strength and even muscle mass, uh the benefits are greater and and again this is just talking about it through the lens of mortality.”