Association of physical activity on body composition, cardiometabolic risk factors, and prevalence of cardiovascular disease in the Korean population (from the fifth Korea national health and nutrition examination survey, 2008–2011)

Table 4 Association of physical activity level with CVD after adjustment for data sets of potential mediators

	Low	Moderate	p value	High	p value
Age of >65 years and sex	1.00	0.82 (0.71–0.95)	0.001	0.678 (0.58–0.80)	0.001
Basic model^a	1.00	0.82 (0.74-0.92)	0.029	0.66 (0.59–0.75)	0.001
Basic model plus each set of risk factors below
BMI > 25 kg/m²	1.00	0.82 (0.71–0.95)	0.025	0.67 (0.57–0.79)	0.001
Sarcopenia	1.00	0.87 (0.73–1.05)	0.287	0.75 (0.61–0.92)	0.005
Central obesity	1.00	0.83 (0.71–0.96)	0.031	0.68 (0.57–0.80)	0.014
High triglyceride	1.00	0.81 (0.70–0.95)	0.029	0.70 (0.59–0.83)	0.001
Low HDL	1.00	0.81 (0.70–0.95)	0.029	0.71 (0.60–0.84)	0.001

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