Table 2.

Characteristics of preceding week’s exercise in cancer patients† by age and sex.

Exercise Frequency (Times/Week) by Intensity ‡	All Patients		Age < 65 Years				Age ≥ 65 Years
	(392)		Men (81)		Women (158)		Men (71)		Women (78)
	Mean (SD) §	Median (IQR) ¶	Mean (SD) §	Median (IQR) ¶	Mean (SD) §	Median (IQR) ¶	Mean (SD) §	Median (IQR) ¶	Mean (SD) §	Median (IQR) ¶
Strenuous	0.20	0	0.21	0	0.29	0	0.13	0	0.08	0
	(0.84)	(0)	(0.85)	(0)	(1.03)	(0)	(0.70)	(0)	(0.42)	(0)
Moderate	0.71	0	0.64	0	0.77	0	0.61	0	0.75	0
	(1.43)	(1)	(1.30)	(1)	(1.40)	(1)	(1.53)	(0)	(1.53)	(1)
Mild	1.56	0	1.20	0	1.31	0	2.24	2	1.68	0
	(2.15)	(2)	(1.68)	(2)	(1.99)	(2)	(2.49)	(4)	(2.38)	(3)
Exercise level ††	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Insufficiently active	363	93	76	94	144	92	66	94	74	95
Sufficiently active	27	7	5	6	13	8	4	6	4	5
Sweat-inducing activity ‡	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Often	60	16	9	11	23	15	15	21	13	17
Sometimes	121	32	28	35	54	35	16	23	21	27
Rarely/never	204	53	43	54	77	50	39	56	43	56

^† Participants of STIP-ON study conducted in Verona, Italy, from July 2018 to April 2019. ^‡ Exercise intensity according to [35]. ^§ SD, standard deviation; ^¶ IQR, interquartile range. ^†† Exercise level according to Leisure Score Index (LSI): active ≥24; insufficiently active <24 [36].