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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2013 Mar 5;22(5):792–802. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-13-0054

Table 4.

Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for all-cause, cancer-specific, and CVD-specific mortality by the WCRF/AICR body weight, physical activity, and dietary recommendation adherence scores

Physical activity recommendation adherence score
ptrend
0 0.5 1.0
All-cause mortality
 Model 1a 1.0 0.64 (0.50 – 0.81) 0.64 (0.48 – 0.85) 0.0001
 Model 2b 1.0 0.62 (0.48 – 0.79) 0.62 (0.47 – 0.83) < 0.0001
Cancer-specific mortality
 Model 1a 1.0 0.63 (0.43 – 0.92) 0.74 (0.49 – 1.11) 0.05
 Model 2b 1.0 0.61 (0.42 – 0.91) 0.72 (0.47 – 1.10) 0.04
CVD-specific mortality
 Model 1a 1.0 0.70 (0.46 – 1.09) 0.63 (0.37 – 1.07) 0.04
 Model 2b 1.0 0.68 (0.44 – 1.05) 0.60 (0.35 – 1.03) 0.03

Dietary recommendation adherence scorec
ptrend
< 4.0 4.0 > 4.0

All-cause mortality
 Model 1a 1.0 0.94 (0.75 – 1.18) 0.77 (0.62 – 0.96) 0.02
 Model 2b 1.0 0.95 (0.76 – 1.19) 0.80 (0.64 – 1.00) 0.046
Cancer-specific mortality
 Model 1a 1.0 0.84 (0.59 – 1.20) 0.74 (0.52 – 1.05) 0.09
 Model 2b 1.0 0.86 (0.60 – 1.23) 0.76 (0.53 – 1.09) 0.14
CVD-specific mortality
 Model 1a 1.0 0.84 (0.55 – 1.30) 0.97 (0.66 – 1.43) 0.91
 Model 2b 1.0 0.84 (0.55 – 1.30) 1.00 (0.68 – 1.46) 1.00

Body weight recommendation adherence score
ptrend
0 0.5 1

All-cause mortality
 Model 1a 1.0 0.92 (0.72 – 1.19) 1.22 (0.96 – 1.55) 0.06
 Model 2b 1.0 0.98 (0.76 – 1.27) 1.34 (1.05 – 1.72) 0.009
Cancer-specific mortality
 Model 1a 1.0 0.90 (0.60 – 1.38) 1.16 (0.79 – 1.70) 0.35
 Model 2b 1.0 0.93 (0.62 – 1.39) 1.26 (0.85 – 1.86) 0.18
CVD-specific mortality
 Model 1a 1.0 0.92 (0.59 – 1.45) 1.14 (0.74 – 1.75) 0.47
 Model 2b 1.0 0.98 (0.62 – 1.54) 1.25 (0.81 – 1.94) 0.27
a

Adjusted for age, total number of comorbid conditions (accumulated, 1986–2004), perceived general health and current smoking, cancer stage, cancer type, cancer treatment (surgery, chemotherapy), subsequent cancer diagnosis before 2004, current cancer treatment and person years since cancer diagnosis.

b

Additional adjustment for the other two components of the adherence score (e.g., adherence to the physical activity and dietary recommendations for the analysis of the body weight recommendation adherence).

c

Sum of adherence scores for the six dietary recommendations (range: 0–6).