Association of work-related and leisure-time physical activity with workplace food purchases, dietary quality, and health of hospital employees

Table 4 Adjusted rates of cardiometabolic conditions by PA quartile

	Q1 (lowest)	Q2	Q3	Q4 (highest)
Work-related PA	%	%	%	%	p
Hypertension	18.0	18.3	19.9	24.3	0.06
Prediabetes/Diabetes	24.3	24.5	25.7	29.0	0.06
Hyperlipidemia	33.7	33.4	31.8	27.9	0.10
Obesity	27.6	27.9	29.2	32.8	0.27
Leisure-time PA	%	%	%	%	p
Hypertension	21.0	20.8	20.5	19.8	0.19
Prediabetes/Diabetes	30.4	28.4	25.7	20.8	0.001
Hyperlipidemia	33.8	32.8	31.4	28.6	0.016
Obesity	36.6	33.3	28.7	20.1	< 0.001
Sedentary time	%	%	%	%	p
Hypertension	21.2	20.7	20.3	19.7	0.99
Prediabetes/Diabetes	22.0	24.5	26.7	30.2	0.14
Hyperlipidemia	30.4	31.1	31.7	32.5	0.95
Obesity	25.7	28.1	30.2	33.5	0.16

Adjusted for age, sex, race, ethnicity, education, season, and Healthy Eating Index. Work-related analyses controlled for leisure-time PA and leisure-time analyses controlled for work-related PA. P-value refers to trend across quartiles; bold indicates a statistically significant difference between quartiles. N = 562

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