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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Plast Reconstr Surg. 2010 Mar;125(3):799–810. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181cb5e29

Table 6.

Breast Implant Surgery and Baseline Exercise Data in Percent in Participants with Body Mass Index <25 at Baseline (Among WHI OSa Subjects without Breast Cancer at Baseline)

Breast Implant Surgery

No Yes p-value* Age-
adjusted p-
value

Mean (SD, median) Mean (SD, median)
Recreational physical activity (#
episodes/week)
6.2 (4.19, 5.0) 6.7 (4.49, 6.0) 0.008 0.013
Recreational physical activity of ≥
20 min (#episodes/week)
5.0 (4.08, 5.0) 5.7 (4.45, 5.0) 0.001 0.002
Moderate to strenuous physical
activity (# episodes/week)
3.8 (3.68, 3.0) 4.5 (4.10, 4.0) <.0001 0.001
Moderate to strenuous physical
activity of ≥20 min (#
episodes/week)
3.2 (3.53, 2.5) 3.9 (4.04, 3.0) <.0001 0.0002
Minutes of recreational physical
activity per week
233 (196, 195) 270 (244, 225) 0.012 0.020
Minutes of mod-strenuous physical
activity per week
145 (168, 90) 186 (203, 125) <.0001 0.003
Minutes of strenuous physical
activity per week
42.6 (81.8, 0.0) 57.9 (93.7, 0.0) <.0001 <.0001
Total METs per week 16.5 (15.4, 12.8) 20.1 (18.2, 15.8) <.0001 0.001
METs from walking per week 6.2 (6.8, 3.8) 6.9 (7.9, 3.8) 0.329 0.422
*

Wilcoxon test was used for the comparison.

Note: log transformed values are used in the comparison

a

Women's Health Initiative Observational Study