Prospective associations over 15 years between total cycling and mortality (all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer) in 22 450 participants
| FU years Mean (SD) | All-cause mortality | Cardiovascular mortality | Cancer mortality | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total cycling | Events N (%) | HR (95%CI) | Events N (%) | HR (95%CI) | Events N (%) | HR (95%CI) | ||||
| Model A† | Model B‡ | Model A† | Model B‡ | Model A† | Model B‡ | |||||
| 0 min/week | 15.2 (3.4) | 3686 (21.3) | 1 | 1 | 1179 (6.8) | 1 | 1 | 1352 (7.8) | 1 | 1 |
| 1–59 min/week | 15.7 (2.6) | 100 (10.8) | 0.86 (0.71, 1.07) | 0.96 (0.78, 1.17) | 25 (2.7) | 0.73 (0.49, 1.08) | 0.83 (0.56, 1.24) | 44 (4.7) | 0.91 (0.68, 1.24) | 0.99 (0.73, 1.34) |
| ≥60 min/week | 15.7 (3.0) | 612 (14.3) | 0.86 (0.79, 0.94)** | 0.91 (0.84, 0.99)* | 179 (4.2) | 0.81 (0.69, 0.95)* | 0.87 (0.74, 1.02) | 252 (5.9) | 0.89 (0.77, 1.01) | 0.93 (0.81, 1.06) |
| p for linear trend | 0.02 | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.20 | 0.23 | ||||
*p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001.
†Adjusted for age, sex, education level and social class.
‡Further adjusted for smoking status, family history of cancer or cardiovascular disease, and other physical activity (walking and other exercise).
FU, follow-up.