Table 2 Comparison between Lower and Higher Health-related Lifestyle Groups
Characteristics | High | Low |
|---|---|---|
Sex | ||
 Male | 882 | 748 |
 Female | 1701 | 1489 |
Age (Ave years, SD) | 58.2 (12.0) | 52.1 (11.5) |
BMI (Ave kg/m2, SD) | 21.8 (3.0) | 22.0 (3.7) |
Obesity (%) | 12.2 | 18.3 |
Intention to keep ideal weight (%) | ||
 Yes | 92.8 | 70.3 |
Managing Lifestyle for disease prevention (%) | ||
 Yes | 94.4 | 82.7 |
Reading nutritional information labels (%) | ||
 Always | 44.7 | 22.2 |
 Often | 45.4 | 50.8 |
 Rarely | 7.8 | 19.9 |
 Very rarely | 1.9 | 7.0 |
Maintaining a balanced diet in daily life (%) | ||
 Always | 68.3 | 34.9 |
 Often | 29.6 | 47.6 |
 Rarely | 2.0 | 14.9 |
 Very rarely | 0.1 | 2.5 |
Intention for exercise (%) | ||
 Always | 63.6 | 17.6 |
 Sometimes | 33.6 | 50.3 |
 In the past | 2.6 | 25.5 |
 Never | 0.2 | 6.5 |
Adequate Exercise (%) | ||
 Yes | 90.6 | 33.0 |
Excessive alcohol intake (%) | 2.7 | 9.3 |
Smoking (%) | ||
 Current | 17.6 | 18.5 |
 Past | 1.2 | 11.6 |
 None | 81.0 | 69.1 |
Stress (%) | ||
 High | 10.8 | 31.6 |
 Moderate | 54.4 | 53.6 |
 Low | 28.6 | 13.9 |
 None | 6.3 | 0.8 |
Rest (%) | ||
 Satisfactory | 32.5 | 8.5 |
 Adequate | 55.1 | 53.0 |
 Not adequate | 11.8 | 32.0 |
 Not satisfactory | 0.5 | 6.5 |
Sleep (%) | ||
 Satisfactory | 32.1 | 8.8 |
 Adequate | 56.6 | 58.2 |
 Not adequate | 11.1 | 30.9 |
 Not satisfactory | 0.1 | 2.1 |
Purpose in life score ([95% CI]) | 35.3 (35.1–35.5) | 31.4 (31.2–31.7) |