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ArticleFrontiers in public health2022

Joint association of smoking and physical activity with mortality in elderly hypertensive patients: A Chinese population-based cohort study in 2007-2018.

Yating Yang, Huilin Xu, Xiaoqin Liu, Jiong Li, Zeyan Liew, Xing Liu, Chen Huang, Jingjing Zhu, Jinling Zhang, Linli Chen and 3 more

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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13 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Yating YangDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, The Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety of Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Huilin XuShanghai Minhang Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China.
Xiaoqin LiuNCRR-National Centre for Register-Based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Jiong LiDepartment of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Zeyan LiewDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States.
Xing LiuDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, The Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety of Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Chen HuangDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, The Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety of Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Jingjing ZhuDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, The Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety of Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Jinling ZhangShanghai Minhang Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China.
Linli ChenShanghai Minhang Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China.
Yuantao HaoDepartment of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Guoyou QinShanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, Shanghai, China.
Yongfu YuDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, The Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety of Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Fudan University · CNShanghai Municipal Center For Disease Control Prevention · CNAarhus University · DKSun Yat-sen University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Although associations of physical activity and smoking with mortality have been well-established, the joint impact of physical activity and smoking on premature mortality among elderly hypertensive population was still unclear. This study aimed to assess association of physical activity, smoking, and their interaction with all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality risk in elderly hypertensive patients. Methods: We included 125,978 Chinese hypertensive patients aged 60-85 years [mean (SD) age, 70.5 (6.9) years] who had records in electronic health information system of Minhang District of Shanghai, China in 2007-2015. Cox regression was used to estimate individual and joint association of smoking and physical activity on all-cause and CVD mortality. Interactions were measured both additively and multiplicatively. Additive interaction was evaluated by relative excess risk due to interaction (RERI), attributable proportion due to interaction (AP) and synergy index (S). Results: Among 125,978 elderly hypertensive patients (median age 70.1), 28,250 deaths from all causes and 13,164 deaths from CVD were observed during the follow-up up to 11 years. There was an additive interaction between smoking and physical inactivity [RERI: all-cause 0.19 (95% CI: 0.04-0.34), CVD 0.28 (0.06-0.50); AP: all-cause 0.09 (0.02-0.16), CVD 0.14 (0.04-0.23); S: all-cause 1.21 (1.04-1.42), CVD 1.36 (1.06-1.75)], while the concurrence of both risk factors was associated with more than 2-fold risk of death [hazard ratio (HR): all-cause 2.10 (1.99-2.21), CVD 2.19 (2.02-2.38)]. Conclusion: Our study suggested that smoking and physical inactivity together may have amplified association on premature death compared to the sum of their individual associations, highlighting the importance of improving behavioral factors in combination and promoting a comprehensive healthy lifestyle in hypertensive elderly.

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HypertensionAgedChinaCohort StudiesExerciseHumansSmokingall-cause mortalitycardiovascular diseaseelderlyhypertensioninteractionphysical activitysmoking

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