Combined diet and physical activity is better than diet or physical activity alone at improving health outcomes for patients in New Zealand’s primary care intervention

Table 3 Frequency of health problems by behavior change groups and control group (neither PA nor diet)

	Increased PA		Changed Diet		PA + Diet		Neither PA nor Diet		Total
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	N	%
Entire sample	258	17.3	268	18.0	825	55.4	137	9.2	1488
Metabolic problems	160	13.4	219	18.4	723	60.7	90	7.6	1192	79.5
Physiological problems	121	19.3	127	20.3	302	48.2	77	12.3	627	42.1
Psychological problems	78	17.4	81	18.1	253	56.6	35	7.8	447	30.0
Sleep problems	45	17.8	44	17.4	145	57.3	19	7.5	253	17.0
Asthma/breathing	47	19.3	53	21.8	130	53.5	13	5.3	243	16.8
Fall prevention	21	20.2	19	18.3	46	44.2	18	17.3	104	7.2
Smoking	13	19.4	14	20.9	33	49.3	7	10.4	67	4.6

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