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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 3.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2019 Oct 3;21(6):713–719.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2019.08.003

Table 2S.

Association between leisure activities and all-cause mortality after excluding participants with missing data on covariates.

All-cause mortality
HR (95% CI) P
Watching TV or listening to radio
 Never 1.00 (reference) -
 Sometimes 0.90 (0.87–0.93) < 0.001
 Almost every day 0.84 (0.81–0.87) < 0.001
Reading books or newspapers
 Never 1.00 (reference) -
 Sometimes 0.91 (0.86–0.97) 0.002
 Almost every day 0.86 (0.80–0.91) < 0.001
Gardening
 Never 1.00 (reference) -
 Sometimes 0.91 (0.86–0.94) < 0.001
 Almost every day 0.82 (0.78–0.86) < 0.001
Playing cards or mah-jong
 Never 1.00 (reference) -
 Sometimes 0.89 (0.85–0.94) < 0.001
 Almost every day 0.89 (0.82–0.96) < 0.001
Keeping domestic animals or pets
 Never 1.00 (reference) -
 Sometimes 0.99 (0.92–1.06) 0.753
 Almost every day 0.86 (0.80–0.92) < 0.001
Religious activities
 Never 1.00 (reference) -
 Sometimes 0.96 (0.92–1.01) 0.138
 Almost every day 0.87 (0.80–0.96) 0.004
Number of leisure activities
 0 1.00 (reference) -
 1 0.84 (0.81–0.87) < 0.001
 2 0.75 (0.72–0.78) < 0.001
 3 0.70 (0.67–0.74) < 0.001
 4 0.64 (0.58–0.78) < 0.001
 5 0.67 (0.57–0.78) < 0.001
 6 0.49 (0.35–0.78) < 0.001
 P for trend < 0.001

HR: hazard ratio; CI: confidence interval;

a

Adjusted for age and sex, education level, occupation, marital status, living pattern and residence, smoking status, alcohol consumption, frequent vegetable consumption, frequent fruit consumption, regular exercise, BMI, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, lung disease, heart disease, depression symptoms, ADLs and participation in other leisure activities.