Table 6.

Sex-stratified odds ratios of physical activity types for the prevention of metabolic syndrome

	Metabolic syndromea
	Men (n = 68)								Women (n = 116)
	OR	95% CI		P	AOR	95% CI		P	OR	95% CI		P	AOR	95% CI		P
E-typeb	1.00	(reference)			1.00	(reference)			1.00	(reference)			1.00	(reference)
D-typeb	0.65	0.30	1.46	0.285	1.21	0.37	4.37	0.753	0.23	0.30	0.77	0.018	0.24	0.06	0.85	0.028

Boldface indicates statistically significant differences

OR odds ratio, AOR adjusted odds ratio by age, CI confidence interval

^aThe dependent variables are defined by “the presence of metabolic syndrome or pre-metabolic syndrome: case” and “non-metabolic syndrome: non-case”

^bThe independent variable is the type of physical activity. D-type and E-type: see Table 1