Research Article
Different Types of Physical Activity and Fitness and Health in Adults: An 18-Year Longitudinal Study
Table 3
THLM model for physical fitness of 723 participants in the Bad Schönborn study.
| Fixed effects (in order of influence according to -value) |
| Parameter | Estimate | [95% CI] | SE | | |
| Constant term | 93.74 | [92.96–94.52] | 0.40 | 55611.18 | <.01 | Sex (if male) | 7.00 | [5.86–8.14] | 0.58 | 145.04 | <.01 | Age2 (per year2) | −0.0072 | [−0.0095–−0.0049] | 0.0012 | 37.75 | <.01 | Age (per year) | −0.20 | [−0.28–−0.12] | 0.041 | 23.09 | <.01 | Athlete (if yes) | 1.50 | [0.83 to 2.17] | 0.34 | 19.31 | <.01 | SA (per MET-h) | 0.052 | [0.029–0.076] | 0.052 | 19.12 | <.01 | SES (per enhancing social stratum) | 0.91 | [0.47–1.35] | 0.22 | 16.54 | <.01 | Agesex | −0.083 | [−0.145–−0.020] | 0.032 | 6.66 | .01 | BMI (per BMI point) | −0.18 | [−0.36–−0.01] | 0.094 | 3.51 | .06 | HA (per MET-h) | 0.013 | [−0.001–0.026] | 0.067 | 3.47 | .06 | AgeBMI | −0.018 | [−0.362–0.009] | 0.010 | 3.11 | .08 | Age2BMI | 0.00048 | [−0.00008–0.00100] | 0.00029 | 2.81 | .09 |
| Random effects |
| Parameter | Estimate | [95% CI] | SE | Wald | |
| Constant term | 14.23 | [11.23–18.03] | 1.72 | 8.27 | <.01 | BMI | 0.12 | [0.04–0.35] | 0.06 | 1.81 | .07 | Age | 0.0070 | [0.0021–0.0223] | 0.0041 | 1.69 | .09 |
| Model fit |
| Correlation between predicted and measured values: = .94 −2 Log-Likelihood: 8207.19 |
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