Table 3. Effect of season on the associations between high seasonality and objective health risk factors.
| Health measurement | Seasonality group | Season | Statistics for seasonality group*season | ||||
| Winter | Spring | Summer | Fall | Anova F(6) | P | ||
| Men | |||||||
| Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) | GSS<8 | 132 (13) | 131 (14) | 130 (13) | 131 (15) | 2.60 | .016 |
| GSS 8–10 | 133 (13) | 130 (13) | 129 (14) | 132 (13) | |||
| GSS≥11 | 134 (15) | 131 (12) | 123 (20) | 129 (17) | |||
| Women | |||||||
| BMI | GSS<8 | 24.6 (4.0) | 24.6 (4.1) | 24.2 (3.7) | 24.3 (3.8) | 2.34 | .030 |
| GSS 8–10 | 24.4 (3.8) | 24.7 (3.8) | 25.0 (4.1) | 24.8 (4.1) | |||
| GSS≥11 | 25.5 (4.5) | 25.3 (4.2) | 24.8 (3.8) | 25.6 (4.4) | |||
| Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) | GSS<8 | 124 (14) | 123 (14) | 122 (15) | 123 (14) | 2.21 | .039 |
| GSS 8–10 | 123 (13) | 123 (13) | 123 (14) | 123 (14) | |||
| GSS≥11 | 123 (12) | 124 (15) | 119 (12) | 123 (13) | |||
Analysis of variance using objective health measurements as dependent variables and seasonality group, season and the interaction term seasonality group*season as independent variables. Only significant effects are shown.
GSS = Global Seasonality Score.