Long-term physical activity in leisure time and mortality from @entity301 , XXXX , @entity1576 , and @entity5 . The Copenhagen City Heart Study.

@entity1 @entity64 @entity6 @entity301 @entity167 @entity5 @entity1576 @entity204 @entity165
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to describe the associations between different levels of long-term physical activity in leisure time and subsequent causes of @entity204 . DESIGN: The Copenhagen City Heart Study is a prospective cardiovascular population study of 19 329 @entity1 and @entity1 aged 20-93 in 1976. Physical activity in leisure time was estimated at the examinations in 1976-78 and 1981-83. This analysis consists of 2136 healthy @entity1 and 2758 @entity1 aged 20-79 years, with unchanged physical activity at the two examinations, and with all covariates included in the multivariate analyses: smoking, total- @entity165 , high-density lipoprotein- @entity165 , systolic blood pressure, @entity6 , @entity167 consumption, body mass index, education, income, and forced expiratory volume in 10.78 (% predicted). RESULTS: Adjusted relative risks (95% confidence interval) for @entity301 were, for moderate physical activity 0.71 (0.51, 0.99) and for high 0.56 (0.38, 0.82). For @entity5 , moderate activity 0.77 (0.61, 0.97) and high activity 0.73 (0.56, 0.95) and for all-cause mortality, moderate 0.78 (0.68, 0.89) and high 0.75 (0.64, 0.87) for both sexes combined. Using Kaplan-Meier plots we calculated gained years of expected lifetime from age 50. @entity1 with high physical activity survived 6.8 years longer, and @entity1 with moderate physical activity 4.9 years longer than sedentary @entity1 . For @entity1 the figures were 6.4 and 5.5 years, respectively. CONCLUSION: Long-term moderate or high physical activity was in both sexes associated with significantly lower mortality from @entity301 , @entity5 and all-causes. The same tendency was found for @entity64 and @entity1576 , but the associations did not reach statistical significance.
