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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 11.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Health Behav. 2012 Jan;36(1):56–65. doi: 10.5993/ajhb.36.1.6

Table 4.

Mean Frequency and Duration of Physical Activity by Intensity and BMI Category

Intensity Normal Weight Overweight Obese P
Frequency (times per week) Moderate 2.51 (0.11) 2.66 (0.13) 2.59 (0.14) 0.514
Vigorous 2.74 (0.22) 2.29 (0.16) 1.87 (0.16) <0.001
Total 5.26 (0.27) 4.95 (0.22) 4.45 (0.23) 0.001

Duration (min per week) Moderate 102.27 (5.53) 121.39 (6.73) 117.68 (5.68) 0.022
Vigorous 140.94 (14.95) 109.41 (12.31) 95.87 (13.22) <0.001
Total 243.2 (15.31) 230.8 (12.4) 213.55 (13.52) 0.030

Data presented as Mean (SE). Sociodemographic factors that were controlled for in this analysis included age in years, gender, ethnicity, income-to-poverty ratio and educational attainment level