The combined relationship of occupational and leisure-time physical activity with all-cause mortality among men, accounting for physical fitness
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- Els Clays (UGent) , Mark Lidegaard, Dirk De Bacquer (UGent) , Koen Van Herck (UGent) , Gui De Backer (UGent) , France Kittel, Patrick de Smet and Andreas Holtermann
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- The aim of this study was to assess the combined relationship of occupational physical activity and leisure-time physical activity with all-cause mortality among men, while accounting for physical fitness. The prospective Belgian Physical Fitness Study included 1,456 male workers aged 40-55 years who were free of coronary heart disease at baseline. Baseline data were collected through questionnaires and clinical examinations from 1976 to 1978. To estimate physical fitness, a submaximal graded exercise test was performed on a bicycle ergometer. Total mortality was registered during a mean follow-up period of 16.9 years. Main results were obtained through Cox proportional hazards regression analysis. A total of 145 deaths were registered during follow-up. After adjustment for confounders, a significantly increased mortality rate was observed in workers who had low levels of both physical activity types (hazard ratio = 2.07, 95% confidence interval: 1.03, 4.19) but also in workers combining high occupational physical activity and low leisure-time physical activity (hazard ratio = 2.04, 95% confidence interval: 1.07, 3.91); the latter finding was particularly pronounced among workers with a low physical fitness level. The present results confirm the existence of a complex interplay among different physical activity settings and fitness levels in predicting mortality.
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- ASSOCIATION, WOMEN, PREVENTION, EMPLOYEES, CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE, ISCHEMIC-HEART-DISEASE, physical fitness, physical activity, occupation, mortality, RISK, WORK, MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION, HEALTH
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-5695516
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- Clays, Els, et al. “The Combined Relationship of Occupational and Leisure-Time Physical Activity with All-Cause Mortality among Men, Accounting for Physical Fitness.” AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, vol. 179, no. 5, 2014, pp. 559–66, doi:10.1093/aje/kwt294.
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- Clays, E., Lidegaard, M., De Bacquer, D., Van Herck, K., De Backer, G., Kittel, F., … Holtermann, A. (2014). The combined relationship of occupational and leisure-time physical activity with all-cause mortality among men, accounting for physical fitness. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, 179(5), 559–566. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwt294
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- Clays, Els, Mark Lidegaard, Dirk De Bacquer, Koen Van Herck, Gui De Backer, France Kittel, Patrick de Smet, and Andreas Holtermann. 2014. “The Combined Relationship of Occupational and Leisure-Time Physical Activity with All-Cause Mortality among Men, Accounting for Physical Fitness.” AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY 179 (5): 559–66. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwt294.
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- Clays, Els, Mark Lidegaard, Dirk De Bacquer, Koen Van Herck, Gui De Backer, France Kittel, Patrick de Smet, and Andreas Holtermann. 2014. “The Combined Relationship of Occupational and Leisure-Time Physical Activity with All-Cause Mortality among Men, Accounting for Physical Fitness.” AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY 179 (5): 559–566. doi:10.1093/aje/kwt294.
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- 1.Clays E, Lidegaard M, De Bacquer D, Van Herck K, De Backer G, Kittel F, et al. The combined relationship of occupational and leisure-time physical activity with all-cause mortality among men, accounting for physical fitness. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2014;179(5):559–66.
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- [1]E. Clays et al., “The combined relationship of occupational and leisure-time physical activity with all-cause mortality among men, accounting for physical fitness,” AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, vol. 179, no. 5, pp. 559–566, 2014.
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