Figure 1.
Flow diagram of the study population.
The entire study sample consisted of persons participating in at least one of the four examinations in the Copenhagen City Heart Study who were free of previous myocardial infarction, heart failure and stroke at their first examination in the study. n, numbers.
Table 1.
Risk factor profile by level of physical activity among 8422 men and 9931 women in the Copenhagen City Heart Study.
Table 2.
Hospital admission or death from heart failure by duration and speed of walking and other leisure time physical activity.
Figure 2.
Hazard ratios for HF according to self-assessed duration- and speed of walking.
From analyses pooling men and women free of previous heart failure, myocardial infarction and stroke at baseline. Conf. adj. – adjusted for confounders as specified in methods. Multiv. adj. – adjusted for confounders and potential mediators as described in methods. p-value for linear trend.
Figure 3.
Hazard ratios for HF by categories defined by self-assessed speed and duration of walking.
Adjusted for confounders as described in methods. * p<0.05.
Figure 4.
Hazard ratios of heart failure according to self-assessed duration- and speed of walking.
From analyses pooling men and women after exclusion of participants admitted to hospital with diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome during follow-up. Conf. adj. - Adjusted for confounders as described in methods. p-value for linear trend.