Table 3. Association Between Midlife Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Later-life Incident Cancer and Cause-specific Mortality in CCLS.
**Health Status | 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) | |||
Healthy to Cancer | 1691 | referent | 0.94 (0.83, 1.08) | 1.07 (0.93, 1.24) | 1.01 (0.99, 1.04) |
Cancer to Cancer Death | 219 | referent | 0.76 (0.53, 1.08) | 0.68 (0.47, 0.98) | 0.90 (0.84, 0.97) |
Cancer to CVD Death | 64 | referent | 0.59 (0.33, 1.05) | 0.32 (0.16, 0.64) | 0.75 (0.66, 0.87) |
Healthy to Cancer Death | 281 | referent | 0.73 (0.54, 0.98) | 0.66 (0.48, 0.91) | 0.96 (0.91, 1.02) |
Healthy to CVD Death | 495 | referent | 0.48 (0.39, 0.59) | 0.38 (0.29, 0.48) | 0.84 (0.80, 0.89) |
Adjusted for age, visit date, BMI, smoking, systolic blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, fasting glucose
Healthy defined as having no observed incident cancer or cardiovascular disease at baseline