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Table 1 Sociodemographic and lifestyle characteristics before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (n = 1 004)

From: Changes in lifestyle, adiposity, and cardiometabolic markers among young adults in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic

 

Before the pandemic

(2016–2019)1

During the pandemic

(2020–2021)2

 

Continuous variables

Median

IQR

Median

IQR

p-value3

Age (years)

22.5

0.6

25.8

1.3

 < 0.001

Categorical variables

n4

%

n4

%

p-value5

Living area6

    Stockholm County

810

81.0

845

84.3

0.01

    Outside of Stockholm County

190

19.0

157

15.7

Education6

    Elementary school

26

2.6

14

1.5

 < 0.001

    High school

574

57.5

245

25.8

    University/college < 3 years

245

24.5

151

15.9

    University/college ≥ 3 years

154

15.4

541

56.9

Occupation

    Studying

574

57.5

383

38.3

 < 0.001

    Working

361

36.0

557

55.6

    Other

65

6.5

61

6.1

Smoking

    No

688

68.7

755

75.4

 < 0.001

    Ex-smoker

127

12.7

127

12.7

    Yes, sometimes

125

12.5

93

9.3

    Yes, every day

62

6.2

26

2.6

Snuff use

    No

841

83.9

730

72.9

 < 0.001

    Ex-user

33

3.3

40

4.0

    Yes, sometimes

42

4.2

88

8.8

    Yes, every day

86

8.6

144

14.4

  1. IQR Inter quartile range
  2. 1Information obtained from the 24-year follow-up in 2016–2019
  3. 2Information obtained from the COVID-19 follow-up phase 2 iunless otherwise specified
  4. 3p-values obtained by using the Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed rank test
  5. 4Numbers may not add up to total due to missing data
  6. 5p-values obtained using the McNemar’s chi-squared test or the marginal homogeneity test
  7. 6During the pandemic, assessed in the COVID-19 follow-up phase 3, Oct 2021–Feb 2022
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