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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2019 Nov;51(11):2391–2402. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000002117

Figure 1. Multivariable hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for 10 types of cancer when comparing high versus low levels of physical activity.

Figure 1.

The figure above depicts the hazard ratios for 10 types of cancer when comparing high versus low levels of physical activity. The hazard ratio for the most recent meta-analysis is shown by the black dot, and the hazard ratio for the large pooled analysis by Moore et al. (13) is shown by the open triangle. The top 8 types of cancer are those for which the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Advisory Committee (PAGAC) determined there was strong or moderate evidence for a protective effect of physical activity. The meta-analysis hazard ratios depicted here were derived from meta-analyses, as follows: colon (20), breast (5), kidney (47), endometrial (19), bladder (18), esophageal adenocarcinoma (15), stomach (cardia) (15), lung (17), liver (16). The bottom two cancers—liver cancer and melanoma—are those that we determined had substantial evidence from the pooled analysis but which the PAGAC report had not assigned a level of evidence.