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. 2021 Apr 10;26:46. doi: 10.1186/s12199-021-00949-x

Table 2.

Participant characteristics and physical activities (n = 636)

Men (n = 269, 42.3%) Women (n = 367, 57.7%) P for sex-related differencesc
n (%) n (%)
Q1. Exercisea
 With 104 (38.7) 121 (33.0) 0.154
 without 165 (61.3) 246 (67.0)
Q2. Daily physical activitya
 With 142 (52.8) 173 (47.1) 0.173
 Without 147 (54.6) 194 (52.9)
Metabolic syndromeb
 Case 123 (45.7) 58 (15.8) <0.001
 Non-case 146 (54.3) 309 (84.2)
mean (SD) mean (SD)
Age, years 66.1 (7.8) 66.3 (7.1) 0.001
Body mass index, kg/m2 23.3 (3.0) 22.1 (3.5) 0.017
Waist circumference, cm 85.0 (8.0) 81.4 (9.8) 0.014
Systolic blood pressure, mmHg 131.3 (16.5) 129.5 (16.0) 0.004
Diastolic blood pressure, mmHg 76.5 (11.1) 73.3 (10.5) 0.014
Triglyceride, mg/dL 135.5 (88.2) 102.4 (57.2) 0.088
HDL-C, mg/dL 58.2 (15.8) 68.7 (16.4) 0.052
LDL-C, mg/dL 117.6 (30.7) 119.4 (29.7) 0.005
HbA1c, % 6.0 (0.8) 5.8 (0.5) 0.011

HDL-C high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL-C low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, HbA1c glycated hemoglobin

a”Q1. Exercise" and "Q2. Daily physical activity”: see Table 1

bMetabolic syndrome: case (metabolic syndrome and pre-metabolic syndrome), non-case (non-metabolic syndrome)

cP for sex-related difference, independent t-test for continuous variables, or Fisher's exact test for categorical variables. Boldface indicates statistically significant differences