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Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2014 Feb;46(2):312–317. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3182a4e89c

Table 2.

Hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals) for incident kidney cancer by MET-hours/wk run or walked.

Exercise:	Standard covariates^*	Standard covariates^* and BMI.	Standard covariates^*, BMI, blood pressure and diabetes medication use and pack-years of cigarette use.
<7.5 MET-hours/wk 15 cases/9380 subjects	1.000	1.000	1.000
7.5 to 12.5 MET-hours/wk 4 cases/6389 subjects	0.390 (0.111, 1.077) P=0.07	0.428 (0.121, 1.188) P=0.11	0.429 (0.122, 1.191) P=0.11
12.6 to 25.1 MET-hours/wk 14 cases/25,516 subjects	0.333 (0.154, 0.715) P=0.005	0.352 (0.157, 0.784) P=0.01	0.352 (0.157, 0.786) P=0.01
≥25.2 MET-hours/wk 19 cases/50,535 subjects	0.238 (0.111, 0.522) P=0.0005	0.289 (0.131, 0.661) P=0.004	0.288 (0.130, 0.662) P=0.004

Standard covariates include age (age, age²), sex, and whether they were walkers or the 1^st and 2^nd recruitment of runners.