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Table 4 Participant characteristics

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

 

Meeting PA Guidelines (n (%))

Not Meeting PA Guidelines (n (%))

Depression status

  

 Depressed

327 (7.4)

773 (13.5)

 Not depressed

4076 (92.6)

4957 (86.5)

Age (years)

  

 < 50

175 (4.0)a

154 (2.7)b

 50–59

1987 (45.2)a

2196 (38.4)b

 60–69

1482 (33.7)a

1859 (32.5)a

 70–79

609 (13.9)a

1055 (18.4)b

 80+

144 (3.3)a

461 (8.1)b

Sex

  

 Male

2381 (54.1)

2207 (38.5)

 Female

2022 (45.9)

3523 (61.5)

BMI

  

 Underweight

15 (0.4)a

24 (0.6)a

 Normal

787 (22.7)a

966 (22.2)a

 Overweight

1589 (45.8)a

1802 (41.4)b

 Obese

1078 (31.1)a

1557 (35.8)b

  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, PA Participant characteristics
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