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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2017 Nov 16;66(5):886–894. doi: 10.1111/jgs.15201

Table 3.

Risk of all-cause mortality associated with a 30-minute/day increment in physical activity in the overall cohort and in cohort subgroups.

Cohort group Total PA
RR (95% CI)a
Light PA
RR (95% CI) a
MVPA
RR (95% CI) a
Overall (N=6,382; 450 deaths) 0.88 (0.85, 0.92) 0.88 (0.85, 0.92) b0.93 (0.89, 0.97) 0.61 (0.54, 0.71) b 0.67 (0.58, 0.78)

Age, yr
  <80 (N=3,211; 90 deaths) 0.91 (0.85, 0.98) 0.93 (0.84, 1.01) b 0.98 (0.89, 1.08) 0.68 (0.52, 0.88) b 0.69 (0.53, 0.92)

  ≥80 (N=3,171; 360 deaths) 0.87 (0.84, 0.91) 0.88 (0.84, 0.92) b 0.92 (0.87, 0.96) 0.60 (0.51, 0.71) b 0.67 (0.56, 0.79)

  ‡Interaction, p-value .67 .74 .73

Race-ethnicity
  White (N=3,150; 320 deaths) 0.89 (0.85, 0.93) 0.89 (0.86, 0.94) b 0.94 (0.89, 0.99) 0.60 (0.51, 0.71) b 0.64 (0.54, 0.76)

  Black (N=2,151; 96 deaths) 0.85 (0.79, 0.92) 0.85 (0.77, 0.92) b 0.90 (0.82, 0.99) 0.53 (0.38, 0.74) b 0.63 (0.45, 0.91)

  Hispanic (N=1,081; 34 deaths) 0.91 (0.81, 1.03) 0.89 (0.77, 1.04) b 0.90 (0.77, 1.05) 0.88 (0.62, 1.24) b 0.96 (0.67, 1.37)

  ‡Interaction, p-value .32 .14 .38

BMI, kg/m2
  <30 (N=4,492; 336 deaths) 0.87 (0.83, 0.91) 0.87 (0.83, 0.92) b 0.91 (0.87, 0.96) 0.62 (0.54, 0.73) b 0.69 (0.59, 0.81)

  ≥30 (N=1,890; 114 deaths) 0.88 (0.81, 0.95) 0.89 (0.81, 0.97) b 0.94 (0.86, 1.03) 0.53 (0.38, 0.75) b 0.58 (0.41, 0.82)

  ‡Interaction, p-value .86 .64 .29

SPPB score (N=5479, 384 deaths)
  ≤8 (N=2,792; 279 deaths) 0.88 (0.84, 0.92) 0.89 (0.84, 0.94) b 0.94 (0.89, 0.99) 0.56 (0.46, 0.69) b 0.61 (0.49, 0.75)

  >8 (N=2,687; 105 deaths) 0.92 (0.85, 0.98) 0.92 (0.85, 1.01) b 0.95 (0.87, 1.03) 0.77 (0.61, 0.96) b 0.79 (0.63, 1.00)

  ‡Interaction, p-value .10 .16 .009

RR, relative risk; CI, confidence interval; BMI, body mass index; SPPB, short physical performance battery.

Light PA is the combined minutes/day in low light PA and high light PA.

a

Adjusted for awake accelerometer wear-time, age, race-ethnicity, education, smoking, alcohol, age at menopause, number of comorbid conditions, and self-assessed general health status as defined in Table 2 footnote.

b

Light PA and MVPA are mutually adjusted for one another.