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Published in final edited form as: Am J Health Promot. 2013 Mar 4;28(1):41–49. doi: 10.4278/ajhp.120606-QUAL-286

Table 4.

Relationship of short and long moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) bouts with different intensity to overweight and obesity risk in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003–2006: Multinomial logistic regression results for men (n=2,309)

	Overweight vs. normal weight				Obese vs. normal weight
Parameter	Odds-Ratio	95% CI			Odds-Ratio	95% CI
Higher-intensity long bouts minutes/day	0.998	0.991	1.006		0.979	0.964	0.993	^***
Higher-intensity short bouts minutes/day	0.995	0.986	1.004		0.975	0.963	0.987	^***
Lower-intensity long bouts minutes/day	0.997	0.991	1.002		1.000	0.993	1.008
Lower-intensity short bouts minutes/day	1.003	0.998	1.009		1.004	0.997	1.012
Log (Age)	4.847	2.990	7.858	^***	3.398	2.189	5.275	^***
Married	1.260	0.925	1.715		1.187	0.794	1.773
Less high school^a	0.642	0.440	0.938	^**	0.627	0.348	1.131
Some college^a	0.927	0.658	1.306		0.906	0.608	1.351
College graduate^a	0.765	0.536	1.093		0.580	0.364	0.923	^**
Black^b	1.224	0.879	1.704		1.243	0.828	1.865
Hispanic^b	1.596	1.104	2.307	^***	1.041	0.682	1.590
Other race^b	0.722	0.408	1.278		0.615	0.264	1.434
Family size	1.105	1.008	1.212	^**	1.139	1.033	1.257	^***
Below poverty	0.677	0.483	0.950	^**	0.506	0.356	0.720	^***
Daily calories (100 kcal)	0.991	0.976	1.005		0.996	0.979	1.013
Smoker	0.561	0.449	0.700	^***	0.390	0.279	0.545	^***
Poor/fair health	0.933	0.589	1.478		2.020	1.293	3.155	^***
Hours of wear	0.995	0.988	1.003		0.992	0.985	0.999	^**

The reference group in this sequence of dummy variables is “high school graduate.”

The reference group in this sequence of dummy variables is “non-Hispanic whites.”

^***

p< .01

^**

p< .05

p< .10.