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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008 Aug 25;17(9):2458–2466. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-0403

Table 5.

Multivariate RRs and 95% CIs for prostate cancer in relation to level of physical activity according to combinations of stage and grade of cancer

Localized, grade 1 or 2
Localized, grade 3 or 4
Advanced, grade 1 or 2
Advanced, grade 3 or 4
No. cases RR (95% CI) No. cases RR (95% CI) No. cases RR (95% CI) No. cases RR (95% CI)
Exercise at baseline
 Never/rarely 1,731 1.00 (Reference) 309 1.00 (Reference) 138 1.00 (Reference) 102 1.00 (Reference)
 1–3 times/mo 1,549 0.99 (0.92–1.06) 269 1.01 (0.85–1.19) 133 1.02 (0.80–1.30) 119 1.34 (1.03–1.76)
 1–2 times/wk 2,807 1.02 (0.96–1.08) 430 0.93 (0.80–1.08) 227 1.01 (0.81–1.25) 146 0.97 (0.75–1.25)
 3–4 times/wk 3,693 0.97 (0.92–1.03) 606 0.96 (0.83–1.10) 332 1.12 (0.92–1.38) 196 0.99 (0.77–1.26)
 ≥5 times/wk 2,936 1.02 (0.96–1.08) 488 1.01 (0.87–1.17) 243 1.09 (0.88–1.36) 191 1.26 (0.99–1.62)
P for trend 0.84 0.77 0.22 0.34
Activity during adolescence
 Never/rarely 804 1.00 (Reference) 139 1.00 (Reference) 66 1.00 (Reference) 46 1.00 (Reference)
 1–3 times/mo 672 1.03 (0.93–1.14) 112 1.02 (0.79–1.31) 44 0.79 (0.54–1.16) 42 1.15 (0.75–1.74)
 1–2 times/wk 1,710 1.00 (0.92–1.09) 289 1.02 (0.83–1.25) 150 1.04 (0.78–1.39) 107 1.16 (0.82–1.65)
 3–4 times/wk 3,158 0.97 (0.90–1.05) 514 0.96 (0.79–1.15) 280 1.02 (0.78–1.33) 186 1.07 (0.77–1.48)
 ≥5 times/wk 6,372 0.97 (0.90–1.04) 1,048 0.95 (0.80–1.14) 533 0.93 (0.72–1.21) 373 1.04 (0.76–1.42)
P for trend 0.054 0.29 0.55 0.49

NOTE: Multivariate models are adjusted for covariates indicated in Table 2. For 1,227 cases, grade information was not available.