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Table 9 Patients' age and gender when lifestyle behaviour is discussed, 1975-2008

From: Discussing patient's lifestyle choices in the consulting room: analysis of GP-patient consultations between 1975 and 2008

Discussing/Age or gender category:

Smoking

Alcohol

Nutrition

Physical activity*

Total

0-19 years

30 (3.6%)

4 (0.5%)

108 (13%)

131 (15.8%)

831

20-44 years

165 (6.3%)

66 (2.5%)

237 (9%)

415 (15.8%)

2633

45-64 years

148 (8.6%)

65 (3.8%)

203 (11.8%)

308 (17.9%)

1722

65-74 years

40 (6.4%)

19 (3.1%)

74 (11.9%)

112 (18%)

622

75-84 years

15 (4.7%)

6 (1.9%)

42 (13%)

65 (20.2%)

322

>85 years

2 (2.7%)

1 (1.4%)

5 (6.8%)

15 (20.3%)

74

Male

(ref)

197 (8.2%)

102 (4.3%)

242 (10.1%)

466(19.5%)

2389

Female

203 (5.3%)**

79 (2.1%)**

426 (11.2%)

579 (15.2%)**

3808

  1. *Significant trend: discussing of lifestyle behaviour increases when patient is older, logistic regression, OR: 1.01 & CI 1.01-1.01. **Significant difference, logistic regression (male as reference group), Smoking = OR: 0.6 & CI: 0.5-0.8; Alcohol = OR: 0.4 & CI: 0.3-0.5; Physical activity = OR: 0.7 & CI: 0.6-0.8.