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. 2021 Jul 4;18(13):7158. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18137158

Table 3.

Risk ratios for diagnostics and course of COVID-19 and acute respiratory infection (n = 1544).

Model 1 Model 2 Model 3
RR (95% CI) p RR (95% CI) p RR (95% CI) p
COVID-19 diagnostics
PCR/Positive 1.091 (0.688, 1.730) 0.36 1.163 (0.696, 1.942) 0.28 1.093 (0.802, 1.488) 0.29
PCR + Antigen/Positive 0.992 (0.685, 1.439) 0.48 1.074 (0.710, 1.625) 0.37 1.025 (0.794, 1.323) 0.43
Course of COVID-19
asymptomatic 1.677 (0.628, 4.477) 0.15 2.321 (0.836, 6.442) 0.05 1.421 (0.779, 2.590) 0.13
mild 1.207 (0.627, 2.320) 0.29 0.987 (0.457, 2.134) 0.49 1.194 (0.766, 1.859) 0.22
moderate 0.696 (0.399, 1.213) 0.1 0.829 (0.446, 1.540) 0.28 0.760 (0.504, 1.146) 0.1
severe - 1.364 (0.229, 8.110) 0.37 1.351 (0.226, 8.068) 0.37
Incidence of acute respiratory infection/yr
<once 1.108 (0.936, 1.311) 0.12 1.923 (1.1641, 2.253) 0.00 1.070 (0.916, 1.249) 0.20
once 1.154 (0.971, 1.370) 0.05 0.578 (0.457, 0.731) 0.00 1.232 (0.823, 1.844) 0.16
twice 0.869 (0.680, 1.112) 0.13 0.394 (0.270, 0.574) 0.00 0.485 (0.256, 0.920) 0.01
>twice 0.718 (0.496, 1.038) 0.04 0.258 (0.138, 0.483) 0.00 0.485 (0.160, 1.476) 0.10

Model 1 physically active group; Model 2 cold-water swimmers; Model 3 males only.