Table 1. Sample Characteristics Assessed in the Preintervention Evaluation in the Whole Sample and in Participants Divided by the Physical Activity Level^a and by the Quartiles of Cardiorespiratory Fitness^b, Data Collected in São Paulo, Brazil, October 2001–October 2015.

Characteristic	Whole Sample	Physical Activity Level				Cardiorespiratory Fitness Level, by Quartile
		Inactive	Insufficiently Active	Active	Very Active	1	2	3	4
No. of participants	152	25	31	43	47	32	37	35	27
Sex, %
Female	74	76	80	81	57	71	83	80	63
Male	26	24	19	18	42	28	16	20	37
Age, %, y
40–59	29	28	26	28	28	6	13	40c	45c , d
≥60	71	72	74	72	71	94	81	60c	55c , d
Self-reported health status, %
Heart disease	11	8	13	14	6	13	16	6	11
Smoker	3	0	0	2	8	0	3	3	7
Weight excess	64	64	61	60	70	63	62	71	74
Central obesity	59	84	81	79	83	66	65	57	67
Hypertension	37	32	42	46	30	53	38	26	48
Hypercholesterolemia	34	28	42	37	25	44	46	29	22
Diabetes	16	16	13	19	15	19	5	20	22

^a Levels of physical activity were defined as 1) inactive, 0 minutes per week; 2) insufficiently active, 1 to 149 minutes per week; 3) active, 150 to 299 minutes per week; and 4) very active, 300 or more minutes per week (6).

^b Cardiorespiratory fitness level was assessed by the 2-minute step-test and classified based on quartiles of the total sample as follows: quartile 1, 87 or fewer steps; quartile 2, 88 to 101 steps; quartile 3, 102 to 114 steps; and quartile 4, 115 steps or more.

^c Significantly different from quartile 1 (P < .05, χ² test).

^d Significantly different from quartile 2 (P < .05, χ² test).