Table 3.

Categorical Analyses of Dose‐Response Relationship of Physical Activity on CVD and T2DM, Compared to Baseline of Inactive Behaviour

Health Outcome	Low Physical Activity (0.1–11.5 METs h/week)	Medium Physical Activity (11.5–29.5 METs h/week)	High Physical Activity (29.5+ METs h/week)
CVD incidence (I00–I99)	0.89 (0.82, 0.98)	0.79 (0.69, 0.89)	0.75 (0.64, 0.87)
CVD mortality (I00–I99)	0.72 (0.67, 0.77)	0.72 (0.66, 0.78)	0.73 (0.67, 0.79)
Stroke incidence (I60–I69)	0.85 (0.80, 0.91)	0.81 (0.74, 0.88)	0.76 (0.68, 0.85)
CHD incidence (I20–I25)	0.87 (0.80, 0.95)	0.78 (0.74, 0.82)	0.70 (0.66, 0.75)
CHD mortality (I20–25)	N/A	0.76 (0.63, 0.93)	N/A
Heart failure incidence (I50)	N/A	0.79 (0.72, 0.85)	0.74 (0.68, 0.79)
MI incidence (I21–22)	N/A	0.76 (0.66, 0.87)	N/A
T2DM incidence (E11)	0.77 (0.74, 0.80)	0.70 (0.54, 0.90)	N/A

CHD indicates coronary heart disease; CVD, cardiovascular disease; MET, metabolic equivalent of task; MI, myocardial infarction; N/A, not available; T2DM, type 2 diabetes mellitus.