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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 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