Television, physical activity, diet, and body weight status: the ARIC cohort

Table 2 Description of television watching, physical activity, and dietary outcomes at baseline and six years later.

	Baseline n = 15,574		Follow-up n = 12,678
	Median	Range	Median	Range
Sport index	2.3	1.0 – 5.0	2.5	1.0 – 5.0
Work index among workers*	2.6	1.0 – 4.9	2.6	1.0 – 5.0
Total caloric intake (kcal)	1530	500 – 4192	1494	504 – 4181
Total fat (grams)	55.4	5.4 – 235.1	50.9	6.7 – 228.0
Percent kcal from total fat (%)	33.1	5.9 – 62.6	31.3	6.4 – 61.8
Percent kcal from saturated fat (%)	12.0	1.3 – 29.0	11.3	1.6 – 27.7
Fruit & vegetables combined (servings per day)	3.7	0 – 53.0	4.1	0 – 69.0
Salty snacks (servings per day)	0.21	0 – 6.5	0.21	0 – 8.5
Sweets (servings per day)	1.0	0 – 27.4	1.0	0 – 37.0
Sweetened drinks (servings per day)	0.1	0 – 11.0	0.1	0 – 12.0
Body mass index	26.9	14.2 – 65.9	27.5	13.2 – 60.2
	n ^§	%	n ^§	%
Television
Never	296	1.9	255	2.0
Seldom	2582	16.6	1825	14.4
Sometimes	7293	46.8	5912	46.6
Often	4133	26.5	3735	29.5
Very often	1270	8.2	951	7.5
Sufficient physical activity
Insufficient	10681	68.7	8019	63.5
Sufficient	4856	31.3	4608	36.5
Leisure walking
Never or seldom	4591	29.5	3032	23.9
Sometimes	7539	48.4	6221	49.0
Often or very often	3444	22.1	3424	27.0
Obesity
Underweight	142	0.9	115	0.9
Normal	5014	32.2	3510	27.7
Overweight	6122	39.3	4981	39.3
Obese	4296	27.6	4058	32.0

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