Caregiving associated with selected cancer risk behaviors and screening utilization among women: cross-sectional results of the 2009 BRFSS

Table 2 Cancer risk behaviors of population sample, by caregiver status ^a

Behavior^b	Caregivers	Non-caregivers	P value
	N (%)	N (%)
Body mass index, kg/m²; Mean (SE)	28.0 (0.19)	27.3 (0.11)	0.01
Normal (<25.0 kg/m²)	385,000 (35.0)	811,000 (38.9)	0.08
Overweight (25 - <30 kg/m²)	377,000 (34.3)	696,000 (33.4)
Obese (≥30 kg/m²)	337,000 (30.7)	577,000 (27.7)
Total physical activity			0.0006
0 minutes/week	208,000 (17.9)	522,000 (23.8)
1 – 149 minutes/week	319,000 (27.5)	565,000 (25.8)
≥150 minutes/week	635,000 (54.6)	1,103,000 (50.4)
Alcohol use			0.13
None	811,000 (68.3)	1,610,000 (71.5)
Low or moderate	339,000 (28.5)	574,000 (25.5)
Heavy	38,000 (3.2)	68,000 (3.0)
Smoking status			0.07
Never smoker	693,000 (58.1)	1,398,000 (61.6)
Former smoker	291,000 (24.4)	538,000 (23.7)
Current smoker	209,000 (17.5)	334,000 (14.7)
Fruit/vegetable intake			0.06
<5 servings per day	846,000 (70.6)	1,674,000 (73.7)
≥5 servings per day	352,000 (29.4)	598,000 (26.3)

^aData reported are the weighted frequencies (rounded to the nearest 1000) and percentages, based on an unweighted sample size of 10,015.
^bThe unweighted numbers of missing observations for each variable are as follows: body mass index, 479; physical activity, 335; alcohol use, 105; smoking status, 41; fruit/vegetable intake, 27.

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