title: Self-recalled Youth Physical Activity and Postmenopausal Cardiovascular Disease.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the association between childhood physical activity and incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) during postmenopausal years.
  
  
  METHODS
  Proportional hazards and logistic regression were used describe the association between self-reported childhood physical activity and CVD incidence and mortality in 36,741 postmenopausal women.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Older women, African-Americans, or nondrinkers or past drinkers self-reported the highest levels of youth physical activity and women with a history of diabetes, hypertension, overweight or obesity, or current smoking reported the highest youth physical activity dose. Youth physical activity was not associated with CVD incidence (HR=1.11; 0.93, 1.34) or mortality (HR=1.2; 0.9, 1.73).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Self-reported youth activity was not associated with postmenopausal CVD incidence or mortality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA.
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Goodman
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA.
authors.forename: Hannah Lui
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA.
authors.forename: Marcia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stefanick
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA.
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hingle
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lamonte
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA.
authors.forename: Erine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: LeBlanc
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA.
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA.
authors.forename: Manisha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Desai
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA.
authors.forename: Hoda
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Anton-Culver
keywords: cardiovascular disease prevention; epidemiology; exercise; population studies