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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Feb 7.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol. 2022 Jun 16;79:102195. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2022.102195

Table 2.

Leisure-time physical activity by selected study variables among women in the control group. The Nigerian Integrative Epidemiology of Breast Cancer Study(NIBBLE), years 2014–2016.

Leisure-Time Physical Activity (LTPA) by METs h/wa
< 3.75 N = 208
N (%) /Mean ± SD
3.75–6.69 N = 222 6.70–14.74 N = 216 14.75 ≤ N = 216 p-value

Age, years 39.9 ± 9.8 39.7 ± 9.3 41.0 ± 8.4 40.1 ± 8.6 0.396
Occupation < 0.001
 Self-Employed 45(22.6) 21(9.7) 18(8.7) 9(4.4)
 Unskilled Manual 78(39.0) 142(65.7) 105(50.5) 144(69.9)
 Skilled Manual 36(18.0) 30(14.8) 46(22.1) 30(14.6)
 Professional/Executive 41(20.4) 21(9.7) 39(18.7) 23(11.1)
Wealth Index 0.005
 Low 63(30.4) 101(45.9) 82(38.3) 99(46.3)
 Middle 57(27.5) 58(26.4) 57(26.6) 57(26.6)
 High 87(42.5) 61(27.7) 75(35.1) 58(27.1)
Parity 0.091
 0 32(15.5) 34(15.3) 22(10.2) 28(13.1)
 1–2 51(24.8) 52(23.4) 52(24.1) 42(19.6)
 3–5 99(48.1) 100(45.1) 102(47.2) 92(43.0)
 ≥ 6 24(11.6) 36(16.2) 40(18.5) 52(24.3)
Menopausal status 0.157
 Postmenopausal 39(18.8) 36(16.3) 47(21.9) 53(24.5)
 Premenopausal 169(81.2) 185(83.7) 168(78.1) 163(75.5)
BMI kg/m2 0.004
 < 25 38(18.9) 79(36.1) 59(27.3) 57(27.3)
 25–29.99 69(34.3) 68(31.1) 80(37.0) 77(38.8)
 ≥ 30 94(46.8) 72(32.8) 77(35.7) 75(35.9)
Physical activity at home(Standing hour/week) 0.016
 0–5 59(28.4) 85(38.3) 82(38.0) 53(24.7)
 6–10 77(37.0) 81(36.5) 73(33.8) 87(40.5)
 ≥ 10 72(34.6) 56(25.2) 61(28.2) 75(34.8)
Physical activity at work(Standing hour/week) < 0.001
 0–5 68(32.7) 42(19.0) 37(17.2) 29(14.4)
 6–10 50(24.0) 90(40.5) 75(34.9) 54(25.0)
 ≥ 10 90(43.3) 90(40.5) 103(47.9) 133(61.6)

BMI, Body Mass Index; METs, Metabolic Equivalents, SD, Standard Deviation; h, hour; w, week.

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Complete case analysis.