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

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about longitudinal associations of exercise with different types of cancer, particularly in Asian populations. The purpose of this research was to estimate the association between the duration of exercise and all-cause and cancer-specific mortality.

Method

Data were obtained from the Korean Metabolic Syndrome Mortality Study (KMSMS), a prospective cohort study of 303,428 Korean adults aged 20 years or older at baseline between 1994 and 2004 after exclusion of individuals with missing variables on smoking and exercise. Death certificate-linked data until 31 December 2015 were provided by the Korean National Statistical Office. Cox regression models were constructed to evaluate the associations of exercise with cancer mortality after adjusting for po

SUBMITTER: Jee Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6006742 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature