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. 2015 Nov 23;15:1164. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-2495-6

Table 2.

Lifestyle of the study population by the sedentary status. Values are N [%]. Variables with italics were included in PCA

Characteristic All (n = 616) Sedentary, sitting time ≥ 5 h (n = 179) Non-sedentary, sitting time ≤ 2 h (n = 172) p*
Eating breakfast (yes) 391 (68.8) 101 (59.8) 121 (78.1) <0.001
Self-rated quality of diet (good/excellent) 300 (53.6) 61 (37.2) 104 (69.8) <0.001
Weekly intake (3–7 times)
  Vegetable/fruit/berry, 287 (50.2) 75 (44.4) 94 (55.6) 0.003
  Fast food 299 (52.1) 34 (19.8) 14 (8.9) 0.005
  Sweets intake 70 (12.2) 102 (59.3) 66 (42.3) 0.002
Current smoker 166 (26.8) 46 (25.7) 47 (27.3) 0.941
Current snuffer 83 (14.4) 14 (8.3) 32 (20.4) 0.002
Binge alcohol drinking (≥1/week) 134 (23.3) 55 (32.7) 24 (15.5) 0.002
Internet use (≥2 h/day) 150 (26.7) 149 (86.6) 41 (26.1) <0.001
Playing Internet games (≥1/week) 343 (60.6) 125 (73.5) 66 (44.3) <0.001
Spent time with friends(<1/month) 21 (3.6) 11 (6.4) 2 (1.3) 0.021
Possibilities to discuss problems with friends and family (rarely/never) 53 (9.0) 25 (14.5) 9 (5.6) 0.007

*p-values (sedentary vs. non-sedentary groups) from independent samples t-test or crosstabs chi-squared tests. Fisher’s Exact Test was used, if n ≤ 5

Numbers do not match due to missing values