Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of the baseline sample of participants and their comparison with the Australian population.
| Demographic characteristics | Sample (N=5062), n (%) | Australian populationa, % | |||
| Gender | |||||
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Male | 774 (15.29) | 49.4 | ||
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Female | 4265 (84.25) | 50.6 | ||
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Unisex | 23 (0.45) | —b | ||
| Age group (years) | |||||
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18-30 | 675 (13.33) | 18.6 | ||
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31-50 | 1997 (39.45) | 37.7 | ||
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51-70 | 2186 (43.18) | 30.5 | ||
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≥71 | 204 (4.03) | 13.1 | ||
| Weight status | |||||
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Underweight | 52 (1.02) | 1.7 | ||
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Normal weight | 1587 (31.35) | 35.5 | ||
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Overweight | 1833 (36.21) | 35.3 | ||
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Obese | 1590 (31.41) | 27.5 | ||
| Australian state or territory | |||||
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New South Wales | 1529 (30.21) | 32.2 | ||
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Victoria | 1484 (29.32) | 24.9 | ||
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Queensland | 916 (18.10) | 20.1 | ||
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Western Australia | 446 (8.81) | 10.4 | ||
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South Australia | 435 (8.60) | 7.4 | ||
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Tasmania | 76 (1.50) | 2.3 | ||
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Northern Territory | 12 (0.24) | 1.0 | ||
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Australian Capital Territory | 93 (1.84) | 1.7 | ||
aAustralian population estimates were taken from the 2016 census, available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics [39].
bData unavailable.