Table 4.

Univariable linear regression models assessing the associations of sex, age, smoking status, and occupation with weight loss (IWMP, baseline N = 141).

	β-coefficient	95% Confidence interval	p-value
Sex (male)	3.82	0.59 – 7.05	0.021
Age (≤ 50y)	3.85	0.61 – 7.10	0.020
Smoking (yes)	−2.67	−8.17 – 2.84	0.339
Occupation (Employed)	2.10	−2.43 – 6.63	0.359
Occupation (Retired)	−1.331	−8.85 – 6.19	0.726

NB, the following reference categories were used: sex- female, age–>50 years, smoking- no, occupation- unemployed.