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Table 2 Age-adjusted Mortality Rates per 100,000 and Hazard Ratios (HR) for Death Due to All Causes, All Cancers, and Various Cancers by total duration (minutes/week) of Exercise per Week at Baseline in Korean men, 1994-2015

From: Exercise and cancer mortality in Korean men and women: a prospective cohort study

 

No exercise

Exercise

Total duration of exercise per week (minutes/week)

P for linear trend

<150

150-299

≥300

All causes

 Number of death

6,150

5,769

1,668

1,215

1,355

 

 Death rate

572.7

389.3

371.7

376.8

384.2

 

 HR (95% CI)

1.0

0.70 (0.68 – 0.73)

0.69 (0.65-0.73)

0.67 (0.63-0.71)

0.67 (0.63-0.71)

<.0001

All cancers

 Number of death

2,739

2,740

781

611

640

 

 Death rate

233.2

166.4

150.5

165.5

163.3

 

 HR (95% CI)

1.0

0.77 (0.73 – 0.81)

0.74 (0.68-0.80)

0.78 (0.71-0.85)

0.73 (0.67-0.80)

<.0001

Esophagus

 Number of death

65

56

16

15

13

 

 Death rate

5.6

3.2

4.0

4.1

2.7

 

 HR (95% CI)

1.0

0.67 (0.47 – 0.97)

0.64 (0.37-1.12)

0.84 (0.48-1.48)

0.66 (0.36-1.21)

0.1426

Head and Neck

 Number of death

37

32

14

3

7

 

 Death rate

3.0

1.7

2.2

0.7

1.3

 

 HR (95% CI)

1.0

0.67 (0.41 – 1.09)

0.98 (0.53-1.83)

0.28 (0.09-0.93)

0.60 (0.26-1.36)

0.0595

Liver

 Number of death

551

573

163

130

132

 

 Death rate

40.5

31.0

26.4

34.3

29.1

 

 HR (95% CI)

1.0

0.83 (0.74 – 0.94)

0.76 (0.64-0.90)

0.85 (0.70-1.03)

0.83 (0.68-1.00)

0.0183

Lung

 Number of death

745

650

173

128

171

 

 Death rate

70.7

39.2

33.2

36.0

42.6

 

 HR (95% CI)

1.0

0.71 (0.64 – 0.79)

0.65 (0.55-0.77)

0.64 (0.53-0.77)

0.75 (0.63-0.89)

<.0001

Colorectal

 Number of death

203

185

60

42

39

 

 Death rate

17.0

11.6

10.3

12.1

9.7

 

 HR (95% CI)

1.0

0.65 (0.53 – 0.80)

0.72 (0.54-0.96)

0.66 (0.47-0.92)

0.55 (0.39-0.78)

0.0001

Pancreas

 Number of death

172

252

73

69

50

 

 Death rate

13.7

14.5

14.4

17.1

11.5

 

 HR (95% CI)

1.0

1.0 (1.00 – 1.00)

1.11 (0.84-1.46)

1.44 (1.08-1.90)

0.96 (0.69-1.32)

0.3910

Kidney

 Number of death

31

42

12

9

11

 

 Death rate

2.3

3.3

2.0

3.1

7.0

 

 HR (95% CI)

1.0

0.95 (0.59 – 1.53)

0.93 (0.47-1.81)

0.92 (0.44-1.95)

1.01 (0.50-2.04)

0.9846

Stomach

 Number of death

347

287

89

63

64

 

 Death rate

31.8

17.9

18.6

15.3

16.1

 

 HR (95% CI)

1.0

0.62 (0.53 – 0.73)

0.65 (0.52-0.83)

0.62 (0.47-0.81)

0.56 (0.43-0.74)

<.0001

Prostate

 Number of death

64

84

22

20

21

 

 Death rate

7.0

6.6

5.8

6.7

6.1

 

 HR (95% CI)

1.0

0.80 (0.57 – 1.11)

0.80 (0.49-1.31)

0.85 (0.51-1.41)

0.72 (0.44-1.19)

0.1641

  1. Adjusted for age, alcohol drinking status (non, and current), and smoking status (never, former, and current)