Table 3.
Characteristics of health behavior trend clusters. The observed avg ± Std dev of features used for clustering are indicated.
| Cluster Color | Description | Mean | Variance | Slope* | Percent of Participants | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVH | WH | Total | |||||
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Decliners | Medium | High | Negative | 14.62% | 20.53% | 17.35% |
| 0.47 ± 0.13 | 0.37 ± 0.19 | 0.38 ± 0.19 | |||||
| Healthy and Steady | High | Low | Constant | 29.23% | 34.82% | 31.82% | |
| 0.75 ± 0.12 | 0.14 ± 0.09 | 0.55 ± 0.08 | |||||
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Improvers | Medium | High | Positive | 21.54% | 17.86% | 19.83% |
| 0.58 ± 0.14 | 0.36 ± 0.17 | 0.75 ± 0.11 | |||||
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Unhealthy and Steady | Low | Low | Constant | 35.38% | 25.89% | 30.99% |
| 0.36 ± 0.13 | 0.1 ± 0.08 | 0.52 ± 0.07 | |||||
For the slope, a normalized value lesser than 0.5 is considered negative slope, a normalized value greater than 0.5 is considered positive slope and a normalized value of approximately 0.5 is considered constant slope.


