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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Epidemiol. 2015 Apr 18;25(7):475–479.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2015.04.001

Table 3.

Association of leisure-time physical activity (MET-score) with all-cause mortality, non-vascular death, and vascular death in the Northern Manhattan Study.

All-cause mortality Hazard ratio and 95% confidence interval Non-vascular death Hazard ratio and 95% confidence interval Vascular death Hazard ratio and 95% confidence interval
Third quartile of MET-score versus no activity (univariate) 0.87 (0.78-0.97) 0.84 (0.71-0.98) 0.89 (0.75-1.07)
Fourth quartile of MET-score versus no activity (univariate) 0.87 (0.77-0.99) 0.86 (0.73-1.03) 0.91 (0.74-1.11)
Third quartile of MET-score (range) versus no activity *¥ 0.87 (0.77-0.98) 0.83 (0.70-0.98) 0.92(0.75-1.11)
Fourth quartile of MET-score (range) versus no activity *¥ 0.79 (0.69-0.91) 0.75 (0.62-0.91) 0.89 (0.71-1.10)
*

Adjusted for age, race-ethnicity, high school education, health insurance, moderate alcohol use, tobacco use, hypertension, diabetes, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, body mass index, any heart disease.

¥

p-value for the improvement of fit with chi-squared test with 2 degrees of freedom=0.003 for all-cause mortality, =0.01 for non-vascular death and =0.51 for vascular death.