Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of patients allocated exercise programme or best care.

Characteristics	Exercise Completed Follow up	Best Care Completed Follow up	Exercise Lost to Follow up	Best Care Lost to Follow up
N	55	51	9	12
Age (years)	71(5)	74 (6)
Living in rural areas (%)	67	65	67	33
Living alone (%)	24	18	22	17
Education, primary school or higher (%)	40	37	44	33
Income (€/month), (%):
less than 360	4	3	11	0
360 to 600	89	91	89	92
more than 600	7	6	0	8
Daily smoking (1 or more cigarette/day)	1	0	0	0
Daily alcohol consumption (%)	11	4
Physical activity standardised (%)	0	0	0	0
Overweight (%)	80	86	78	83
BMI	29.7 (4.2)	30.6 (4.3)
Diabetes mellitus type II (%)	40	39	33	25
Moderate depressed (%)	33	39	44	33