Combined diet and physical activity is better than diet or physical activity alone at improving health outcomes for patients in New Zealand’s primary care intervention

Table 2 Frequencies and percentages of individual health problems and frequency of health problems within subsamples containing more than one health problem

Health problems	Number	Percent
Weight problems^a	886	59.5
High blood pressure/risk of stroke^a	424	28.5
Arthritis^b	397	26.7
Back pain or problems^b	382	25.7
Stress^c	345	23.2
High cholesterol^a	311	20.9
Depression/anxiety^c	287	19.3
Diagnosed type 2 diabetes^a	271	18.2
Sleep problems	253	17.0
Asthma/breathing problems	243	16.3
Pre-diabetes/risk of diabetes^a	229	15.4
Fall prevention	104	7.0
Osteoporosis^b	78	5.2
Smoking	67	4.5
Subsamples containing > 1 health problem
1 Metabolic health problem	605	40.7
2 Metabolic health problems	332	22.3
3 Metabolic health problems	174	11.7
4 Metabolic health problems	75	5.0
5 Metabolic health problems	6	0.4
Total metabolic health problems	1192	80.1
1 Physiological health problem	427	28.7
2 Physiological health problems	170	11.4
3 Physiological health problems	30	2.0
Total physiological health problems	627	42.1
1 Psychological health problem	262	17.6
2 Psychological health problems	185	12.4
Total psychological health problems	447	30.0

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