Table 8.

Associations between the number of visits to emergency services and physical activity level in the general Spanish population aged 18–69 years compared by sex, according to the ENSE 2017.

Men
PAL	n	Mean	(SD)	CI (95%)	Med	(IQR)	p	p *
Inactive	1156	0.66	(1.39)	0.58–0.74	0	(1)	<0.001	a
Walkers	3333	0.43	(1.06)	0.39–0.46	0	(1)		b
Low	1076	0.34	(0.91)	0.29–0.40	0	(0)		c
Medium	1273	0.35	(0.83)	0.31–0.40	0	(0)		bc
High	877	0.37	(0.79)	0.32–0.42	0	(1)		bc
Very High	481	0.28	(0.65)	0.23–0.34	0	(0)		c
Women
PAL	n	Mean	(SD)	CI (95%)	Med	(IQR)	p	p *
Inactive	1322	0.99	(2.22)	0.87–1.11	0	(1)	<0.001	a
Walkers	4562	0.58	(1.34)	0.54–0.61	0	(1)		b
Low	1262	0.46	(1.08)	0.40–0.52	0	(1)		c
Medium	1076	0.44	(1.09)	0.37–0.50	0	(1)		c
High	476	0.47	(1.04)	0.37–0.56	0	(1)		b
Very High	236	0.51	(1.30)	0.35–0.68	0	(1)		b
Total
PAL	n	Mean	(SD)	CI (95%)	Med	(IQR)	p	p *
Inactive	2478	0.84	(1.89)	0.76–0.91	0	(1)	<0.001	a
Walkers	7895	0.51	(1.23)	0.49–0.54	0	(1)		b
Low	2338	0.41	(1.00)	0.37–0.45	0	(1)		c
Medium	2349	0.39	(0.96)	0.35–0.43	0	(1)		c
High	1353	0.41	(0.89)	0.36–0.45	0	(1)		c
Very High	717	0.36	(0.92)	0.29–0.43	0	(0)		c

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; n: participants; SD: standard deviation; CI: confidence interval; Med: Median; IQR: interquartile range; p: value from Kruskal-Wallis test; p *: p-value from Mann–Whitney U test; _a–c: different subscripts denote significant intergroup differences at the 0.05 level using the Mann–Whitney U-test.