Adjusted relative risks (RR) for non-communicable diseases that is attributable to low physical activity and high sedentary behaviour reported in studies of physical inactivity, institutional eldercare and sedentary behaviour
| Study/reference | RR (95% Cl) | Adjustment factor* | |
| Physical inactivity | |||
| Coronary heart disease | Lee et al4 | 1.16 (1.04 to 1.30) | 1.20 |
| Type 2 diabetes | Lee et al4 | 1.20 (1.10 to 1.33) | 1.23 |
| Breast cancer | Lee et al4 | 1.33 (1.26 to 1.42) | 1.05 |
| Colon cancer | Lee et al4 | 1.32 (1.23 to 1.39) | 1.22 |
| Stroke | Ding et al9 | 1.18 (NA) | 1.40† |
| Depression | Schuch et al40 | 1.19 (1.13 to 1.26)‡ | NA |
| Back pain | Shiri and Falah-Hasani41 | 1.12 (1.03 to 1.22) | NA |
| Fracture | Qu et al42 | 1.41 (1.25 to 1.59) | NA |
| All-cause mortality | Lee et al4 | 1.28 (1.21 to 1.36) | 1.22 |
| Institutional eldercare | |||
| Alzheimer’s disease | Beckett et al43 | 1.64 (1.37 to 1.92) | NA |
| Fracture | Qu et al42 | 1.41 (1.25 to 1.59) | NA |
| Stroke | Ding et al9 | 1.18 (NA) | 1.40 |
| Sedentary behaviour | |||
| Coronary heart disease | Petersen et al44 | 1.12 (0.95 to 1.28)§ | 1.23 |
| Type 2 diabetes | Heron et al7 | 1.88 (1.62 to 2.17) | 1.12 |
| All-cause mortality | Heron et al7 | 1.25 (1.16 to 1.34) | 1.87 |
| Colon cancer | Heron et al7 | 1.30 (1.12 to 1.49) | 1.22 |
| Breast cancer | Shen et al45 | 1.17 (1.03 to 1.33) | NA |
| Depression | Zhai et al46 | 1.14 (1.06 to 1.21) | NA |
*Adjustment factor was used to explore differences in physical activity and sedentary behaviour between cases with non-communicable disease of interest and healthy participants: If not reported for the cases, physical acitivity was derived from the entire study population.7
†From Finnish (FINRISK) cohort study.
‡OR.
§Pooled HR.
NA, not available.