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. 2014 Sep 28;11:122. doi: 10.1186/s12966-014-0122-z

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics, mean and standard deviation (SD)

C (n=411) PB (n=439) PE (n=435) WB (n=423) WE (n=432) F χ 2 P
Mean age (years)(SD) 64.2 (9.5) 63.1 (8.7) 64.0 (9.4) 61.8 (7.1) 60.8 (7.5) 12.05 0.00a
Gender (% men) 49.9 45.9 45.3 52.3 51.3 10.63 0.22
Education (% low) 50.3 43.5 47.3 46.1 47.8 4.04 0.40
Paid job (%) 42.8 40.1 43.9 36.8 40.2 5.14 0.27
Physical activity
 MET-hours PA/week (SD) 45.4 (40.0) 41.6 (37.7) 41.5 (32.1) 42.9 (38.9) 43.0 (40.7) 0.71 0.58
 Minutes MVPA/week (SD) 806.7 (786.8) 741.3 (739.1) 711.7 (646.7) 684.8 (719.9) 733.4 (721.0) 1.63 0.16
 Days with sufficient PA (SD) 3.8 (2.1) 4.0 (2.0) 3.9 (2.0) 4.3 (2.1) 4.0 (1.9) 4.95 0.00b
Mean utility (SD) 0.873 (0.180) 0.870 (0.166) 0.891 (0.150) 0.880 (0.163) 0.890 (0.158) 1.17 0.32
Mean health care costs (SD) 1012 (3751) 713 (1568) 625 (1532) 733 (1372) 686 (1907) 1.94 0.10c
Mean participant and family costs (SD) 272 (624) 352 (922) 274 (602) 405 (1060) 331 (1001) 1.78 0.13d
Mean productivity losses (SD) 220 (2547) 196 (1069) 199 (1009) 465 (2758) 309 (1694) 1.63 0.17
Mean societal costs (SD) 1683 (4993) 1254 (2315) 1083 (2001) 1583 (3406) 1290 (2876) 2.41 0.05c

NB: all costs are expressed in Euro’s.

aPost-hoc analysis revealed significant differences: C > WB; C > WE; PB > WE; PE > WB; PE > WE.

bPost-hoc analysis revealed significant differences: C < WB; PE < WB.

cBootstrap analysis revealed significant differences: C > PE.

dBootstrap analysis revealed significant differences: C < WB; PE < WB.