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. 2016 Aug 9;354:i3857. doi: 10.1136/bmj.i3857

Table 2.

Categorical dose-response relations between physical activity and breast cancer, colon cancer, diabetes, ischemic heart disease, and ischemic stroke in sensitivity analysis excluding studies with quality score <7 on Newcastle-Ottawa scale

Physical activity in MET minutes/week Pooled relative risk (95% uncertainty interval)
Breast cancer Colon cancer Diabetes Ischemic heart disease Ischemic stroke
<600 Reference Reference Reference Reference Reference
600-3999 0.974 (0.937 to 1.015) 0.887 (0.799 to 0.980) 0.890 (0.808 to 0.968) 0.860 (0.796 to 0.926) 0.862 (0.780 to 0.954)
4000-7999 0.950 (0.905 to 0.998) 0.814 (0.708 to 0.920) 0.827 (0.724 to 0.930) 0.786 (0.696 to 0.883) 0.839 (0.697 to 0.981)
≥8000 0.877 (0.834 to 0.923) 0.795 (0.702 to 0.898) 0.798 (0.702 to 0.891) 0.782 (0.723 to 0.842) 0.802 (0.696 to 0.898)
Heterogeneity 0.003 (0.0001 to 0.009) 0.009 (0.0004 to 0.031) 0.055 (0.038 to 0.073) 0.045 (0.022 to 0.071) 0.019 (0.001 to 0.056)