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Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: Associations of mutually exclusive categories of physical activity and sedentary time with markers of cardiometabolic health in English adults: a cross-sectional analysis of the Health Survey for England

Characteristic

Sample

‘Busy Bees’

‘Sedentary Exercisers’

‘Light Movers’

‘Couch Potatoes’

N = 2131

n = 385; 18.6 %

n = 743; 36.7 %

n = 147; 6.8 %

n = 856; 37.9 %

Age (in years)a

50.8 (0.47)

44.8 (0.72)

45.6 (0.72)

49.8 (1.27)

58.9 (0.74)

Cardiovascular Disease Indexb

     

 No Cardiovascular Diseases

2030 (95.6)

374 (97.4)

707 (95.7)

141 (96.2)

808 (94.6)

 One or More Cardiovascular Diseases

101 (4.4)

11 (2.6)

36 (4.3)

6 (3.8)

48 (5.4)

Ethnicityb

     

 White

2008 (93.2)

364 (93.6)

691 (92.1)

141 (95.1)

812 (93.8)

 Non-White

123 (6.8)

21 (6.4)

52 (7.9)

6 (4.9)

44 (6.2)

Fruit & Vegetable Consumption (portions per day)b

     

 0

95 (4.5)

25 (6.1)

29 (3.9)

8 (5.5)

33 (4.0)

 1–3

680 (32.4)

128 (34.8)

221 (30.6)

46 (30.9)

285 (33.4)

 4–6

968 (45.3)

152 (39.0)

359 (48.0)

69 (48.4)

388 (45.3)

 7+

388 (17.8)

80 (20.1)

134 (17.5)

24 (15.2)

150 (17.3)

Sexb

     

 Male

981 (49.3)

172 (48.8)

414 (59.0)

36 (28.8)

359 (43.8)

 Female

1150 (50.7)

213 (51.2)

329 (41.0)

111 (71.2)

497 (56.2)

Smoking Statusb

     

 Never Smoked

993 (47.1)

171 (44.5)

393 (53.7)

57 (37.8)

372 (43.6)

 Ex-Smoker

726 (32.7)

113 (28.6)

232 (29.5)

51 (34.0)

330 (37.5)

 Current Smoker

410 (20.1)

101 (26.9)

116 (16.4)

39 (28.2)

154 (18.9)

 Missingc

2 (0.1)

0 (0.0)

2 (0.4)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

Socioeconomic Statusb

     

 High

769 (36.7)

80 (20.5)

358 (49.0)

34 (22.5)

297 (35.1)

 High-Intermediate

276 (12.4)

41 (9.6)

100 (13.2)

22 (13.4)

113 (12.8)

 Intermediate

203 (9.5)

48 (12.4)

48 (6.2)

18 (13.7)

89 (10.5)

 Low-Intermediate

191 (9.3)

52 (15.0)

44 (5.8)

14 (11.4)

81 (9.6)

 Low

646 (29.8)

154 (40.1)

177 (23.3)

58 (38.5)

257 (29.5)

 Missingc

46 (2.3)

10 (2.4)

16 (2.5)

1 (0.5)

19 (2.5)

Blood Pressure Medicationb

     

 No

1629 (78.7)

349 (91.1)

636 (87.6)

119 (82.5)

525 (63.4)

 Yes

502 (21.3)

36 (8.9)

107 (12.4)

28 (17.5)

331 (36.6)

Cholesterol Medicationb

     

 No

1797 (85.8)

366 (95.7)

669 (91.3)

129 (88.5)

633 (75.2)

 Yes

334 (14.2)

19 (4.3)

74 (8.7)

18 (11.5)

223 (24.8)

Any Prescribed Medicationb

     

 No

1031 (51.2)

238 (63.2)

426 (60.1)

80 (57.4)

287 (35.5)

 Yes

1100 (48.8)

147 (36.8)

317 (39.9)

67 (42.6)

569 (64.5)

Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity Timea (no. of minutes per valid day)

30.3 (0.59)

51.3 (1.46)

44.0 (0.80)

13.2 (0.39)

9.7 (0.22)

Sedentary Time a (no. of minutes per valid day)

540.2 (2.29)

417.2 (3.62)

564.5 (2.68)

435.5 (3.84)

595.7 (2.39)

Light-Intensity Physical Activity Timea (no. of minutes per valid day)

289.1 (2.06)

394.9 (3.16)

260.5 (1.88)

396.2 (4.35)

245.9 (2.47)

Accelerometer Wear-Timea (no. of minutes per valid day)

859.7 (1.72)

863.5 (4.53)

869.1 (2.69)

844.9 (5.65)

851.4 (2.78)

Sedentary-to-Light-Intensity Physical Activity Time Ratioa

2.2 (0.03)

1.1 (0.01)

2.3 (0.03)

1.1 (0.01)

2.8 (0.05)

Number of Valid Daysb

     

 4

99 (4.9)

18 (4.7)

35 (5.1)

8 (5.7)

38 (4.8)

 5

185 (9.1)

36 (9.7)

55 (8.1)

21 (14.6)

73 (8.8)

 6

414 (20.4)

80 (21.0)

139 (20.1)

32 (23.5)

163 (20.0)

 7

1433 (65.6)

251 (64.6)

514 (66.7)

86 (56.2)

582 (66.4)

Body Mass Index (kg/m2)a

27.5 (0.12)

26.6 (0.24)

26.8 (0.17)

27.6 (0.43)

28.7 (0.21)

Missingc

185 (8.7)

30 (7.8)

44 (5.9)

8 (5.4)

103 (12.0)

Waist Circumference (cm)a

93.4 (0.36)

90.1 (0.70)

91.7 (0.57)

91.5 (1.18)

97.0 (0.55)

Missingc

242 (11.4)

44 (11.4)

80 (10.8)

17 (11.6)

101 (11.8)

HDL-Cholesterol (mmol/L)a

1.49 (0.01)

1.53 (0.02)

1.49 (0.02)

1.58 (0.04)

1.44 (0.01)

Missingc

728 (34.2)

120 (31.2)

245 (33.0)

51 (34.7)

312 (36.4)

Total Cholesterol (mmol/L)a

5.42 (0.03)

5.37 (0.06)

5.49 (0.05)

5.48 (0.12)

5.37 (0.05)

Missingc

728 (34.2)

120 (31.2)

245 (33.0)

51 (34.7)

312 (36.4)

Glycated Haemoglobin (%)a

5.64 (0.02)

5.47 (0.02)

5.51 (0.02)

5.89 (0.14)

5.82 (0.04)

Missingc

746 (35.0)

127 (33.0)

250 (33.6)

52 (35.4)

317 (37.0)

  1. All analyses accounted for primary sampling units, clustering and survey weights
  2. ‘Busy Bees’: Physically Active and Low Sedentary, ‘Sedentary Exercisers’: Physically Active and High Sedentary, ‘Light Movers’: Physically Inactive and Low Sedentary, ‘Couch Potatoes’: Physically Inactive and High Sedentary
  3. aContinuous variable; Mean (Standard Error)
  4. bCategorical variable; n (Proportion (%))
  5. cMissing data; n (%)