Table 1.

Differences in mean weekly hours of television viewing between metabolic health and obesity phenotypes in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (n = 4931).

	Model 1a B (95% CI)	Model 2b B (95% CI)
Metabolically healthy non-obese (n = 1895)	0.0 (reference)	0.0 (reference)
Metabolically unhealthy non-obese (n = 1602)	6.6 (4.8, 8.5)	4.7 (2.9, 6.5)
Metabolically healthy obese (n = 299)	7.4 (4.1, 10.8)	5.8 (2.5, 9.0)
Metabolically unhealthy obese (n = 1135)	10.6 (8.6, 12.7)	7.8 (5.7, 9.8)
p-trend	< 0.001	< 0.001

Data are from wave 4 (2008/9) of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (England, UK). Coefficients represent differences in television viewing time (hours per week) compared with the reference group.

^aAdjusted for age and sex.

^bFurther adjusted for marital status (‘married/cohabiting’; ‘single/never married/widowed/divorced/separated’), occupational class (‘managerial/professional’; ‘intermediate’; ‘routine/manual’), limiting long-standing illness (‘no longstanding illness/has longstanding illness but not limiting’; ‘has limiting longstanding illness’), basic and instrumental activities of daily living (‘no reported issues’; ‘one or more reported issues’), depressive symptoms (8-item Centre of Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale score > 3), smoking status (‘never smoked’; ‘ex-smoker’; ‘current smoker’), alcohol consumption (‘daily’; ‘weekly’; ‘monthly’; ‘rarely/never’), and moderate–vigorous physical activity (‘hardly ever or never’; ‘one to three times per month’; ‘once per week or more than once per week’).