Table 5.

Trends in mortality and social and productive activities across levels of fitness activities in elderly people in New Haven CT, United States^*

Third of fitness activity	Productive activities			Social activities
	Hazard ratio† (95% CI)	P value		Hazard ratio† (95% CI)	P value
Lowest (n=824)‡	0.76 (0.64 to 0.90)	0.002		0.79 (0.61 to 1.02)	0.073
Middle (n=1021)‡	0.77 (0.66 to 0.910	0.003		0.85 (0.74 to 0.970	0.017
Highest (n=761)‡	0.83 90.70 to 0.99)	0.047		0.86 (0.72 to 1.01)	0.071

^*Sample size at baseline was 2812. After deletion of missing data 2761 cases were included in analysis. 

^†Represent risk of death for those in highest versus lowest quarter of each activity type. All models adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, marital status, body mass index, current smoking staus, income, functional status, and history of smoking, cancer, stroke, diabetes, myocardial infarction. 

^‡Because of corrections for sample weighting and ties, observed sample sizes of groups are not equal. These are approximate thirds based on corrections for sample weighting.