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Table 4 Observed and expected prevalence of health risk behaviors, individually and combined¹

From: Association between sociodemographic determinants and health behaviors, and clustering of health risk behaviors among 28,047 adults: a cross-sectional study among adults from the general Norwegian population

Number of health risk behaviors

Physical activity

Diet

Tobacco use

Alcohol

O (%)

E (%)

O/E

95% CI

4

X

X

X

X

4.52

2.42

1.87

(1.79–1.95)

3

X

X

X

-

6.14

6.22

0.99

(0.95–1.02)

 

X

X

-

X

12.20

13.51

0.90

(0.88–0.92)

 

X

-

X

X

0.14

0.32

0.44

(0.31–0.57)

 

-

X

X

X

1.47

1.33

1.10

(1.01–1.20)

2

X

X

-

-

35.61

34.81

1.02

(1.01–1.03)

 

-

-

X

X

0.11

0.18

0.62

(0.40–0.83)

 

X

-

X

-

0.46

0.83

0.55

(0.45–0.65)

 

-

X

-

X

7.84

7.42

1.06

(1.02–1.09)

 

X

-

-

X

0.88

1.80

0.49

(0.43–0.55)

 

-

X

X

-

2.06

3.42

0.60

(0.56–0.65)

1

X

-

-

-

4.58

4.63

0.99

(0.95–1.03)

 

-

X

-

-

18.43

19.13

0.96

(0.95–0.98)

 

-

-

X

-

0.29

0.45

0.63

(0.49–0.77)

 

-

-

-

X

0.80

0.99

0.81

(0.71–0.91)

0

-

-

-

-

4.48

2.54

1.76

(1.69–1.84)

  1. E: expected prevalence; O: observed prevalence; X: nonadherence to the recommendations; -: adherence to the recommendations. O/E; observed to the expected prevalence, where O/E indicates clustering of health behaviors. ¹Note: missing data: 410. The final sample included in this analysis is n = 27,637