Table 2. Number of Cases Attributable to Physical Inactivity, by Sex and Activity Level, Morocco, 2017.
| Disease | Level of activitya | Male |
Female |
Total no. cases attributable to physical inactivity | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total cases | No. cases attributable to physical inactivity | Total cases | No. cases attributable to physical inactivity | |||
| Breast cancer | Low | — | — | 5,619 | 49 | — |
| High | 222 | |||||
| Colorectal cancer | Low | 1,190 | 20 | 1,140 | 31 | 51 |
| High | 49 | 74 | 123 | |||
| Diabetes type 2 | Low | 1,189,857 | 30,937 | 1,778,026 | 73,930 | 104,867 |
| High | 69,456 | 161,801 | 231,257 | |||
| Ischemic heart disease (age ≥35 y) | Low | 222,810 | 7,019 | 66,910 | 2,670 | 9,689 |
| High | 11,497 | 4,343 | 15,840 | |||
| Ischemic stroke (≥35 y) | Low | 33,769 | 1,017 | 30,151 | 1,147 | 2,164 |
| High | 1,905 | 2,135 | 4,040 | |||
Abbreviation: —, not applicable.
Low was defined as 600–3,999 MET-min/wk, and high was defined as ≥8,000 MET-min/wk.