Table 2 Associations between change in pre- and postdiagnosis leisure-time physical activity according to recommendations and overall mortality, breast cancer mortality, and recurrence-free survival in postmenopausal breast cancer survivors
Pre- to postdiagnosis leisure-time physical activity patterns | Number | Overall mortality | Breast cancer mortality | Recurrence-free survival | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Events | HR (95% CI) | Events | HR (95% CI) | Events | HR (95% CI) | ||
Insufficiently active | 1021 | 128 | 1.00 (ref.) | 71 | 1.00 (ref.) | 190 | 1.00 (ref.) |
Increasingly active | 345 | 20 | 0.50 (0.31–0.82) | 14 | 0.54 (0.30–1.00) | 36 | 0.58 (0.40–0.84) |
Decreasingly active | 281 | 32 | 0.91 (0.61–1.36) | 16 | 0.80 (0.45–1.42) | 54 | 1.04 (0.76–1.43) |
Sufficiently active | 372 | 26 | 0.75 (0.48–1.15) | 13 | 0.61 (0.33–1.13) | 44 | 0.80 (0.57–1.14) |