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Published in final edited form as: J Phys Act Health. 2012 Oct 4;10(5):676–689. doi: 10.1123/jpah.10.5.676

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of the study participants

	Exercise n=100	Control n=102	P-value
Demographic and medical factors
Age (years), Mean(SD)	55.4 (6.89)	55.2 (6.84)	0.85
Female, n(%)	49 (49.0)	51 (50.0)	0.89
Race (non-Hispanic white), n(%)	90 (90.0)	95 (93.1)	0.42
College degree, n(%)	61 (61.0)	62 (60.8)	0.97
Post-menopause, n(%)	30 (61.2)	33 (64.7)	0.72
Colon polyp Hx, n(%)	57 (57.0)	58 (56.9)	0.98
Medication use
Antidepressant, n(%)	12 (12.0)	22 (21.6)	0.07
Anxiolytic n(%)^*	1 (1.0)	2 (2.0)	1.00
Anthropometrics and Lifestyle factors
Smoker, n(%)^*	6 (6.0)	6 (5.9)	0.97
BMI (kg/m²), Mean(SD)	29.3 (4.66)	29.3 (4.86)	0.98
Pedometer count (steps/day), Mean(SD)	5963 (2662)	6425 (3069)	0.26
Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (min/week), Mean(SD)	55.5 (92.1)	58.4 (83.5)	0.81
VO_2max (ml/kg/min), Mean(SD)	27.1 (3.3)	27.5 (6.3)	0.58

^*

Fisher’s exact test