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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 28.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Intern Med. 2010 Jun 28;170(12):1050–1056. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.171

Table 3.

Odds ratio of gaining≥5% of baseline body weight between 1989 and 2005 by time spent bicycle riding in 2005 while adjusting for baseline bicycling (1989) among premenopausal women, for all women and for women stratified by 1989 BMI

Bicycle riding in 2005 P-trend
0 min/d 1–59 min/week 1–1.5 hrs/week 2–3 hrs/week ≥4 hrs/week
All women
N 13,432 2,886 1,259 564 273
Mean weight change, kg (SE) 9.7 (0.1) 8.6 (0.2) 8.0 (0.2) 6.9 (0.3) 5.6 (0.4)
Simple OR (95%CI) (a) 1.00 (Ref) 0.92 (0.83–1.01) 0.79 (0.69–0.90) 0.68 (0.56–0.81) 0.56 (0.43–0.72)
Multivariate OR (95%CI) (b) 1.00 (Ref) 0.97 (0.88–1.08) 0.94 (0.82–1.08) 0.85 (0.70–1.02) 0.71 (0.55–0.93) <0.01

BMI<25
N 10,391 2,382 1,045 469 231
Mean weight change, kg (SE) 8.7 (0.1) 7.9 (0.2) 7.6 (0.2) 6.8 (0.3) 5.5 (0.4)
Simple OR (95%CI) (a) 1.00 (Ref) 0.95 (0.85–1.05) 0.82 (0.71–0.94) 0.75 (0.61–0.92) 0.58 (0.44–0.76)
Multivariate OR (95%CI) (b) 1.00 (Ref) 1.00 (0.90–1.12) 0.95 (0.82–1.11) 0.95 (0.76–1.17) 0.74 (0.56–0.98) 0.10

BMI≥25
N 3,041 504 214 95 42
Mean weight change, kg (SE) 13.1 (0.2) 11.9 (0.6) 10.2 (0.9) 7.4 (1.2) 5.7 (1.9)
Simple OR (95%CI) (a) 1.00 (Ref) 0.78 (0.63–0.97) 0.68 (0.50–0.92) 0.43 (0.28–0.66) 0.47 (0.25–0.89)
Multivariate OR (95%CI) (b) 1.00 (Ref) 0.86 (0.68–1.09) 1.02 (0.72–1.43) 0.54 (0.34–0.86) 0.53 (0.26–1.05) 0.01
(a)

Adjusted for 1989 baseline age, weight, and bicycling.

(b)

Adjusted for 1989 baseline age, weight, and bicycling; 1989 baseline and 2005 slow walking, brisk walking, other activity, and total sitting at home; plus the covariates listed in Table 2 footnote c.