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- Title
Leisure Time Physical Activity and Disease-Specific Mortality Among Men With Chronic Bronchitis: Evidence From the Whitehall Study.
- Authors
Batty, G. David; Shipley, Martin J.; Marmot, Michael G.; Smith, George Davey
- Abstract
Objectives. This study examined the association between leisure time physical activity and cause-specific mortality among male Whitehall Study participants with chronic bronchitis. Methods. Rate ratios were calculated for 4 mortality outcomes, according to level of activity and baseline bronchitis status, in a 25-year follow-up of 6479 men. Results. After multiple adjustment for potential confounding or mediating variables, activity was inversely related to all-cause, cardiovascular, coronary heart disease, and noncardiovascular mortality among men free of chronic bronchitis. Among men with bronchitis, weak, nonsignificant positive associations were observed between activity and these outcomes, with the exception of noncardiovascular mortality. Conclusions. The suggestion of a positive activity-mortality association among individuals with chronic bronchitis--albeit weak and nonsignificant--requires further investigation. (Am J Public Health. 2003;93:817-821)
- Subjects
PHYSICAL fitness; MORTALITY of men; BRONCHITIS; CORONARY disease; HEART diseases
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2003, Vol 93, Issue 5, p817
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.93.5.817