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Table 2 Daily time spent in moderate to vigorous physical activity among junior high school students of Ho Chi Minh City in 2007

From: Association between physical activity and metabolic syndrome: a cross sectional survey in adolescents in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

 

Median

(minutes per day)

Inter-quartile range

(25%, 75%)

p-values*

Total

52.0

32.4, 78.8

 

Gender

  

< 0.001

Male

58.3

37.9, 84.9

 

Female

47.0

31.6, 69.2

 

Age group

  

0.500

12-13

51.3

32.0, 75,8

 

14-15

53.8

34.2, 83.2

 

Overweight/obese**

  

0.003

yes

35.2

26.0, 66.7

 

no

54.2

35.5, 81.2

 

Metabolic syndrome

   

Yes

38.8

25.6, 46.9

0.001

No

53.7

33.2, 79.8

 
  1. * p-values of Mann-Whitney rank sum test to compare median of 2 groups.
  2. ** Combined overweight and obese using IOTF cut-off values
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