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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Microcirculation. 2010 Jul;17(5):381–393. doi: 10.1111/j.1549-8719.2010.00033.x

Table 2.

Association between leisure, sport and work indexes and retinal microvascular signs.

Diabetic Non-diabetic Arterio-venous Focal arteriolar CRAE, 1st CRVE, 4th
Retinopathy Retinopathy nicking narrowing quartile range quartile range
n (%) OR (95%CI) OR (95%CI) OR (95%CI) OR (95%CI) OR (95%CI) OR (95%CI)
LEISURE Index Level (1–5) N= 12 492
1.0–2.0 4537 (36) Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
2.1–3.0 6877 (55) 0.80 (0.62–1.02) 0.92 (0.76–1.13) 0.99 (0.88–1.12) 0.98 (0.87–1.11) 1.03 (0.94–1.14) 1.02 (0.93–1.23)
>3.0 1078 (9) 1.11(0.69–1.82) 0.86 (0.60–1.25) 1.09 (0.89–1.34) 0.98 (0.79–1.21) 0.93 (0.78–1.10) 0.98 (0.82–1.17)
Less active (< median of index =2.25) 1275 (10) Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
More active (≥ median of index) 1111 217 (90) 0.88 (0.65–1.19) 0.98 (073–1.33) 1.09 (0.91–1.32) 1.02 (0.84–1.24) 0.89 (0.76–1.04) 0.97 (0.84–1.-12)
SPORT Index Level (1–5) N = 12 449
1.0–2.0 4563 (37) Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
2.1–3.0 4978 (40) 0.89 (0.69–1.15) 0.96 (0.78–1.19) 0.94 (0.83–1.07) 1.06 (0.93–1.20) 1.02 (0.92–1.13) 0.94 (0.85–1.04)
3.1–4.0 2479 (20) 0.92 (0.66–1.30) 0.89 (0.68–1.16) 0.93 (0.80–1.09) 0.99 (0.85–1.16) 0.96 (0.85–1.10) 0.86 (0.75–0.98)*
4.1–5.0 429 (3) 1.01 (0.40–2.53) 0.68 (0.37–1.24) 0.93 (0.68–1.28 1.15 (0.84–1.56) 0.81 (0.62–1.04) 1.12 (0.87–1.44)
Less active (<median of index =2.50) 5791 (47) Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
More active (≥ median of index) 6658 (53) 0.88 (0.69–1.11) 0.88 (0.72–1.05) 0.87 (0.78–0.97)* 0.98 (0.88–1.10) 0.92 (0.84–1.01) 0.91 (0.83–0.99)*
WORK Index Level (1–5) N =12 462
1.0–2.0 7105 (57) Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
2.1–3.0 3515 (28) 0.69 (0.51–0.93)* 1.01 (0.81–1.27) 1.00 (0.87–1.13) 1.14 (0.99–1.30) 1.10 (0.98–1.22) 0.88 (0.79–0.98)*
>3.0 1842 (15) 0.83 (0.56–1.18) 1.06 (0.81–1.39) 1.11 (0.94–1.30) 1.09 (0.92–1.30) 0.92 (0.80–1.06) 1.09 (0.96–1.24)
Less active (<median of index=1.75) 6177 (50) Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
More active (≥ 1.75) 6285 (50) 0.66 (0.51–0.85)* 1.03 (0.84–1.27) 1.10 (0.97–1.25) 1.11 (0.98–1.20) 1.08 (0.98–1.20) 0.94 (0.85–1.04)

OR (odds ratio) and 95%CI adjusted for age, gender, race, post secondary education, BMI, diabetes, current drinker, current smoker, HDL cholesterol, MABP.

*

p<0.05