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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2013 Aug 12;62(3):485–491. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.113.01608

Table 1.

Hazard ratios (95% confidence interval) relative to <1.07 METh/d for all cause, CVD-related, and non-CVD-related mortality in 10,880 runners and walkers on hypertensive medication.

Dependent variable 1.07 to
1.8 METh/d		 1.8 to
3.6 METh/d		 ≥3.6 METh/d
All cause
  No BMI adjustment 0.91
(0.77, 1.09)
P=0.31		 0.71
(0.61, 0.83)
P=0.0001		 0.78
(0.65, 0.94)
P=0.005
  BMI adjustment 0.94
(0.79, 1.12)
P=0.49		 0.74
(0.63, 0.86)
P=0.0001		 0.82
(0.68, 0.99)
P=0.04
CVD-underlying
  No BMI-adjustment 0.89
(0.68, 1.16)
P=0.41		 0.61
(0.48, 0.78)
P=0.0001		 0.70
(0.53, 0.94)
P=0.02
  BMI-adjustment 0.93
(0.71, 1.22)
P=0.60		 0.64
(0.50, 0.82)
P=0.0004		 0.76
(0.57, 1.02)
P=0.06
All CVD-related
  No BMI-adjustment 0.96
(0.77, 1.19)
P=0.70		 0.66
(0.54, 0.80)
P=0.0001		 0.64
(0.50, 0.81)
P=0.0002
  BMI-adjustment 1.00
(0.80, 1.24)
P=0.99		 0.69
(0.57, 0.84)
P=0.0003		 0.68
(0.53, 0.88)
P=0.003
All diabetes-related
  No BMI-adjustment 1.22
(0.73, 2.00)
P=0.43		 0.56
(0.32, 0.95)
P=0.03		 0.59
(0.27, 1.20)
P=0.15
  BMI-adjustment 1.29
(0.77, 2.12)
P=0.32		 0.61
(0.34, 1.04)
P=0.07		 0.68
(0.30, 1.38)
P=0.29
Not CVD, diabetes, or
CKD related
  No BMI-adjustment 0.84
(0.61, 1.14)
P=0.26		 0.83
(0.65, 1.08)
P=0.17		 1.06
(0.79, 1.43)
P=0.70

Adjusted for age (age, age2), sex, education, cohort, intakes of red meat, fruit, alcohol, prior heart attack, aspirin (tablets/day), diabetes and cholesterol medication use, and African American ethnicity. Additional adjustment for BMI where indicated.