Effect of a primary health-care-based controlled trial for cardiorespiratory fitness in refugee women

BMC Primary Care

Table 1 Baseline characteristics (n =179^a)).

	Intervention group (n = 91)	Control group (n= 88)	P value^b)
Continuous data	Median (IQR ^c) )	Median (IQR ^c) )
Age (years)	43 (11)	41 (11)	0.33
Height (cm)	156 (7)	158 (8)	0.26
Weight (kg)	76 (20)	68 (22)	0.002
BMI (kg/m²)	31 (8)	28 (9)	0.001
Years in Sweden	7 (15)	18 (16)	0.009
Categorical data	n (%)	n (%)
Age
18-39	43 (43)	37 (42)	0.94
40-54	49 (49)	43 (49)
55-	7 (8)	8 (9)
BMI category
Normal weight (< 25 kg/m²)	9 (10)	24 (27)	0.008
Overweight	34 (37)	31 (35)
Obese (≥ 30 kg/m²)	48 (53)	33 (38)
Education
< 10 years	49 (54)	36 (47)	0.65
10-12 years	18 (20)	19 (25)
> 12 years	24 (26)	21 (28)
Employed	26 (29)	36 (44)	0.03
Smokers	27 (30)	17 (19)	0.0001
Acculturation
High level of knowledge of Swedish	20 (24)	40 (53)	0.0001
Cardiorespiratory *fitness (outcomes)*	Median (IQR)	Median (IQR)
Relative aerobic capacity (O₂ml·kg·min^-1)	23 (10)	32 (13)	0.0001
	n (%)	n (%)
Fitness level ≥ 23 O₂ml·kg·min^-1 (%)	49 (54)	73 (83)	0.0001

(n = 179 ^a) )
^aAt least one measurement either at baseline or at 6-month follow-up of relative aerobic capacity.
^bWilcoxon rank sum test for continuous data and Chi-square test for categorical data.
^cInterquartile range (IQR)

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