Does the benefit on survival from leisure time physical activity depend on physical activity at work? A prospective cohort study.
<h4>Purpose</h4>To investigate if persons with high physical activity at work have the same benefits from leisure time physical activity as persons with sedentary work.<h4>Methods</h4>In the Copenhagen City Heart Study, a prospective cohort of 7,411 males and 8,916 females ag...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013
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| Sumario: | <h4>Purpose</h4>To investigate if persons with high physical activity at work have the same benefits from leisure time physical activity as persons with sedentary work.<h4>Methods</h4>In the Copenhagen City Heart Study, a prospective cohort of 7,411 males and 8,916 females aged 25-66 years without known cardiovascular disease at entry in 1976-78, 1981-83, 1991-94, or 2001-03, the authors analyzed with sex-stratified multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression the association between leisure time physical activity and cardiovascular and all-cause mortality among individuals with different levels of occupational physical activity.<h4>Results</h4>During a median follow-up of 22.4 years, 4,003 individuals died from cardiovascular disease and 8,935 from all-causes. Irrespective of level of occupational physical activity, a consistently lower risk with increasing leisure time physical activity was found for both cardiovascular and all-cause mortality among both men and women. Compared to low leisure time physical activity, the survival benefit ranged from 1.5-3.6 years for moderate and 2.6-4.7 years for high leisure time physical activity among the different levels of occupational physical activity.<h4>Conclusion</h4>Public campaigns and initiatives for increasing physical activity in the working population should target everybody, irrespective of physical activity at work. |
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