Table 3.
Adjusted coefficients (95% CI) for habitual physical activity over 10 years on inflammatory markers at follow up (n= 4289).
| Meeting physical activity guidelines‡ | Loge C-reactive protein |
Loge interleukin-6 |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model 1 β (95% CI) | Model 2 β (95% CI) | Model 1 β (95% CI) | Model 2 β (95% CI) | |
| Rarely (n=681) | Reference | Reference | Reference | Reference |
| Sometimes (n=1503) | −0.10 (−0.16, −0.04) | −0.08 (−0.13, −0.02) | −0.06 (−0.10, −0.03) | −0.05 (−0.08, −0.01) |
| Always (n=2105) | −0.11 (−0.17, −0.05) | −0.07 (−0.12, −0.02) | −0.09 (−0.12, −0.06) | −0.07 (−0.10, −0.03) |
| p-trend | 0.001 | 0.02 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
‡
Meeting physical activity guidelines (at least 2.5 hrs MVPA per week); ‘Rarely’ includes meeting guideline once or less through follow-up; ‘sometimes’ on two phases; ‘always’ on all three follow-up phases.
Model 1; adjusted for age, gender.
Model 2; adjusted for age, gender, smoking, employment grade, BMI, chronic illness.