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. 2013 Nov 14;3(11):e003797. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003797

Table 3.

Prospective associations over 15 years between total cycling and mortality (all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer) in 22 450 participants

FU years
Mean (SD)
All-cause mortality
Cardiovascular mortality
Cancer mortality
Total cycling Events N (%) HR (95%CI)
Events N (%) HR (95%CI)
Events N (%) HR (95%CI)
Model A† Model B‡ Model A† Model B‡ Model A† Model B‡
0 min/week 15.2 (3.4) 3686 (21.3) 1 1 1179 (6.8) 1 1 1352 (7.8) 1 1
1–59 min/week 15.7 (2.6) 100 (10.8) 0.86 (0.71, 1.07) 0.96 (0.78, 1.17) 25 (2.7) 0.73 (0.49, 1.08) 0.83 (0.56, 1.24) 44 (4.7) 0.91 (0.68, 1.24) 0.99 (0.73, 1.34)
≥60 min/week 15.7 (3.0) 612 (14.3) 0.86 (0.79, 0.94)** 0.91 (0.84, 0.99)* 179 (4.2) 0.81 (0.69, 0.95)* 0.87 (0.74, 1.02) 252 (5.9) 0.89 (0.77, 1.01) 0.93 (0.81, 1.06)
p for linear trend 0.02 0.06 0.04 0.09 0.20 0.23

*p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001.

†Adjusted for age, sex, education level and social class.

‡Further adjusted for smoking status, family history of cancer or cardiovascular disease, and other physical activity (walking and other exercise).

FU, follow-up.