Table 3.
Associations between the hospitalisation prevalence and physical activity level in the general Spanish population aged 18–69 years compared by sex, according to the ENSE 2017.
| Men (n = 8199) | Women (n = 8942) | Total (n = 17,141) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAL | Yes | No | p | Yes | No | p | Yes | No | p |
| Inactive n = 2482 |
137 (11.9) a | 1019 (88.1) b | 0.001 | 150 (11.3) a | 1176 (88.7) b | <0.001 | 287 (11.6) a | 2195 (88.4) b | <0.001 |
| Walkers n = 7901 |
281 (8.4) a | 3054 (91.6) b | 320 (7.0) a | 4246 (93.0) a | 601 (7.6) a | 7300 (92.4) b | |||
| Low n = 2339 |
58 (5.4) a | 1019 (94.6) b | 67 (5.3) a | 1195 (94.7) b | 125 (5.3) a | 2214 (94.7) b | |||
| Medium n = 2349 |
73 (5.7) a | 1200 (94.3) b | 50 (4.6) a | 1026 (95.4) b | 123 (5.2) a | 2226 (94.8) b | |||
| High n = 1353 |
32 (3.6) a | 845 (96.4) b | 19 (4.0) a | 457 (96.0) b | 51 (3.8) a | 1302 (96.2) b | |||
| Very High n = 717 |
18 (3.7) a | 463 (96.3) b | 9 (3.8) a | 227 (96.2) b | 27 (3.8) a | 690 (96.2) b | |||
| Total n = 17,141 |
599 (7.3) | 7600 (92.7) | 615 (6.9) | 8327 (93.1) | 1214 (7.1) | 15,927 (92.9) | |||
Values presented in absolute and relative frequencies; n: number of participants; PAL (Physical Activity Level) PAI: Physical Activity Index; only considers vigorous and moderate physical activity. Scores between 0 and 67.5; Inactive: PAI = 0; reports not walking at least one day a week for more than 10 min at a time; Walkers PAI = 0; reports walking at least one day a week for more than 10 min at a time; Low: PAI = 1–15; Medium: PAI = 16–30; High: PAI = 31–45; Very high: PAI > 45; Yes: hospitalised at least once in the last 12 months; No: not hospitalised in the last 12 months; p: p-value from chi-square test; a, b: Pairwise z-test for independent proportions. Each subscript corresponds to a subset whose column proportions do not differ from each other at the 0.05 level.