Table 5.
Efforts to maintain health according to the gender of respondents.
| Asthma | COPD | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Less stressful lifestyle | Male | 3.32 | 3.67 |
| Female | 3.59 | 3.38 | |
| Gave up smoking | Male | 3.30 | 3.39 |
| Female | 3.50 | 2.70 | |
| Healthy nutrition | Male | 3.20 | 3.12 |
| Female | 3.49 | 3.23 | |
| Taking vitamins | Male | 3.10 | 2.73* |
| Female | 3.46 | 3.38 | |
| Reducing smoking | Male | 3.38 | 3.18 |
| Female | 3.21 | 3.29 | |
| Controlled body weight | Male | 2.90* | 3.17 |
| Female | 3.32 | 3.05 | |
| Exercise | Male | 3.08 | 3.05 |
| Female | 3.07 | 2.72 | |
| No effort | Male | 2.00 | 2.08 |
| Female | 1.77 | 2.13 |
*
Significant at 0.05 level.