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Table 3 Relationship between PA duration and occurrence of cognitive impairment in middle-aged and older adults

From: Relationship between different physical activity parameters and cognitive impairment in middle-aged and older adults: insights from a 4-year longitudinal study

PA duration

Event/participants

Cognitive impairment

RR (95% CI)

Adjusted RRa (95% CI)

LPA

 Inactive

32/79

1.00 (ref.)

1.00 (ref.)

 10–29 min/d

26/118

0.55 (0.35 – 0.84)*

0.55 (0.36 – 0.84)*

 30–119 min/d

101/373

0.67 (0.49—0.91)*

0.66 (0.48 – 0.90)*

MPA

 Inactive

32/79

1.00 (ref.)

1.00 (ref.)

 10–29 min/d

23/60

0.95 (0.62 – 1.44)

0.99 (0.65 – 1.49)

 30–119 min/d

47/190

0.61 (0.42 – 0.88)*

0.61 (0.43 – 0.87)*

VPA

 Inactive

32/79

1.00 (ref.)

1.00 (ref.)

 10–29 min/d

5/17

0.73 (0.33 – 1.59)

0.83 (0.37 – 1.88)

 30–119 min/d

8/41

0.48 (0.25 – 0.94)*

0.45 (0.22 – 0.91)*

  1. Abbreviations: VPA vigorous physical activity, MPA moderate physical activity, LPA light physical activity, RR relative risk, 95% CI 95% confidential intervals; min/d, minutes/day
  2. *p < 0.05
  3. aAdjusted for gender, age, marital status, education levels, smoking status, alcohol drinking frequency, hypertension, dyslipidemia, nervous, or psychiatric problems and memory-related disease