Table 4.

Ambulatory activity in overweight, older adults with chronic low back pain. Values are means ± SD or % of the group

	Overweight	Moderately	Severely	p (sig)
		Obese	Obese
Daily activity (steps/day)	4421 ± 1633	3511 ± 1870	2971 ± 1053 *	0.02
Time spent doing:
High activity (% of day)	1.1 ± 0.8	1.0 ± 0.9	0.7 ± 0.6	0.50
Moderate activity (% of day)	6.8 ± 2.7	5.5 ± 2.9	4.3 ± 1.4 *	0.02
Low activity (% of day)	14.2 ± 3.8	11.8 ± 4.1	13.2 ± 3.3	0.15
No activity (% of day)	77.8 ± 6.4	81.3 ± 6.6	82.5 ± 4.9 *	0.02

% of day = during a 24 hour period

High activity = > than 30 steps/min; Moderate activity = 15-30 steps/min; Low activity = 1 to 14 steps/min

^*p<0.05; different from the Overweight group