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. 2021 Jul 20;10(14):e019174.
doi: 10.1161/JAHA.120.019174. Epub 2021 Jul 14.

Relative-Intensity Physical Activity and Its Association With Cardiometabolic Disease

Juned Siddique  1 , Whitney A Welch  1 , David Aaby  1 , Barbara Sternfeld  2 , Kelley Pettee Gabriel  3 , Mercedes R Carnethon  1 , Jamal S Rana  2   4 , Stephen Sidney  2
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Relative-Intensity Physical Activity and Its Association With Cardiometabolic Disease

Juned Siddique et al. J Am Heart Assoc. .
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Figure 1. Incident hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and waist circumference (WC) as a function of moderate‐to‐vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA) on both relative‐ and absolute‐intensity scales, stratified by sex.
Models were fit using generalized additive models that allow for nonlinear relationships between the outcome and continuous covariates using splines. For hypertension and diabetes mellitus, the y axis is the hazard ratio relative to the hazard where MVPA is set to its mean. For WC, the y axis is the change in year 30 WC as MVPA deviates from its mean value. The red dotted lines in the panels are drawn at 1 (hypertension and diabetes mellitus) or 0 (WC) to indicate the effect when MVPA is set to its mean. Shaded areas represent 95% CIs around the smoothed effects. When the 95% CI of the physical activity (PA) effect at a given MVPA value includes the red line, the corresponding inference is that the effect of PA is not significant at the 0.05 level. All models controlled for age, race (Black/White), year 20 smoking status, year 20 education, and accelerometer wear time. Models for hypertension and diabetes mellitus additionally controlled for year 20 body mass index. Models for year 30 WC additionally controlled for year 20 WC and height. The tick marks above the x axis of each plot correspond to observed MVPA values for each participant.
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