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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 11.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Oncol. 2015 May;1(2):231–237. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2015.0226

Table 2. Association Between Mid-life Fitness and Later-life Incident Cancer in CCLS.

Number of Events Low Fitness Moderate Fitness High Fitness 1-MET increase
Hazard Ratio* (95% Confidence Interval) Hazard Ratio* (95% Confidence Interval) Hazard Ratio* (95% Confidence Interval)
Lung cancer 200 referent 0.57 (0.41, 0.81) 0.45 (0.29, 0.68) 0.83 (0.77, 0.90)
Colon cancer 181 referent 0.67 (0.46, 0.98) 0.56 (0.36, 0.87) 0.91 (0.84, 0.99)
Prostate cancer 1310 referent 1.04 (0.88, 1.23) 1.22 (1.02, 1.46) 1.03 (1.00, 1.06)
*

Adjusted for age, visit date, BMI, smoking, systolic blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, fasting glucose