Fig. 1

Associations between total and intensity-specific physical activity and sedentary time with all-cause mortality, NHANES, 2003–2006. Panel A: Restricted to individuals with ≥5 years of follow-up. Panel B: As panel A + excluding individuals with mobility limitations and prevalent diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or cancer. Models in both panels adjusted for age (continuous), sex, BMI (continuous), education (<High School, High School (including GED), or > High School), race/ethnicity (Mexican-American, Non-Hispanic White, Non-Hispanic Black, or other), alcohol consumption status (never, former, current or missing), smoking-status (never, former or current), marital status (married/living with partner or widowed/divorced/separated/never married). MVPA and sedentary time models are mutually adjusted. Models in panel A adjusted for mobility limitations (any difficulty walking up ten steps or walking a quarter mile), number of medical conditions (continuous score of diabetes, congestive heart failure, coronary heart disease, angina/angina pectoris, heart attack, stroke, cancer or malignancy). CPM; counts/min, LPA; Light physical activity, MVPA; Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, Q; quartile. Median activity levels (Panel A) in ascending quartiles are 134 CPM, 223 CPM, 299 CPM, and 444 CPM for total physical activity, 222 mins/day, 299 mins/day, 358 mins/day, and 441 mins/day for LPA, 2.1 mins/day, 8.4 mins/day, 19.2 mins/day, and 41.6 mins/day for MVPA, and 6.1 h/day, 7.7 h/day, 8.9 h/day, and 10.4 h/day for sedentary time