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Table 2 Study characteristics

From: Associations of self-reported physical activity and depression in 10,000 Irish adults across harmonised datasets: a DEDIPAC-study

 

TILDA

Mitchelstown

MVPA (minutes (median IQR))

90.00 (600.00)

0.00 (180.00)

PA (n (%))

 Not Meeting PA guidelines

4471 (53.8)

1259 (69.0)

 Meeting PA guidelines

3858 (46.3)

545 (30.2)

Depression status (n (%))

 Not Depressed

7522 (90.3)

1511 (83.8)

 Depressed

807 (9.7)

293 (16.2)

Age (n (%))

  < 50

327 (3.9)a

2 (0.1)b

 50–59

3210 (38.6)a

973 (53.9)b

 60–69

2540 (30.5)a

801 (44.4)b

 70–79

1636 (19.7)a

28 (1.6)b

 80+

605 (7.3)a

0 (0.0)b

Sex (n (%))

 Male

3706 (44.5)a

882 (48.9)b

 Female

4623 (55.5)a

922 (51.1)b

BMI (n (%))

 Underweight

32 (0.5)

7 (0.4)

 Normal

1353 (22.5)

401 (22.1)

 Overweight

2576 (42.8)

821 (45.3)

 Obese

2056 (34.2)

584 (32.2)

  1. Different subscript letters indicate a subset of each category whose column proportions differ statistically significantly at the .05 level
  2. BMI Body mass index, MVPA Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, TILDA The Irish longitudinal study on ageing
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