Association of leisure and occupational physical activities and health-related quality of life: Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study

Table 3 Mean health-related quality of life scores among men and women with different levels of physical activity

	Men			P value	Women			P value
	Low	Moderate	High	P value	Low	Moderate	High	P value
SF-12
Physical Function	82.3 ± 1.0	85.9 ± 1.0	86.0 ± 1.1	< 0.001	72.4 ± 1.6	78.3 ± 1.5	80.9 ± 1.8	< 0.001
Role Physical	81.7 ± 0.9	82.3 ± 1.0	82.3 ± 1.1	0.715	66.8 ± 1.4	70.9 ± 1.4	73.3 ± 1.7	< 0.001
Bodily pain	83.0 ± 1.1	83.5 ± 1.0	82.8 ± 1.2	0.726	70.5 ± 1.5	73.2 ± 1.5	74.9 ± 1.8	0.002
General Health	42.2 ± 1.1	45.7 ± 1.1	45.3 ± 1.2	< 0.001	38.3 ± 1.3	40.1 ± 1.2	42.1 ± 1.5	0.004
PCS	48.1 ± 0.4	49.3 ± 0.4	48.7 ± 0.4	< 0.001	45.0 ± 0.5	46.8 ± 0.5	47.8 ± 0.6	< 0.001
Vitality	62.7 ± 1.2	65.3 ± 1.2	68.5 ± 1.4	< 0.001	51.3 ± 1.6	56.9 ± 1.5	61.7 ± 1.8	< 0.001
Social Function	82.1 ± 1.2	81.8 ± 1.2	82.3 ± 1.4	0.875	69.7 ± 17	70.7 ± 1.6	72.0 ± 1.9	0.309
Role Emotional	75.5 ± 1.1	75.2 ± 1.0	77.7 ± 1.2	0.024	64.3 ± 1.5	65.9 ± 1.4	66.4 ± 1.7	0.133
Mental Health	71.8 ± 1.1	70.7 ± 1.0	73.8 ± 1.2	0.007	58.3 ± 1.4	59.2 ± 1.3	60.1 ± 1.6	0.356
MCS	48.8 ± 0.5	48.3 ± 0.5	49.9 ± 0.6	0.003	42.9 ± 0.7	43.3 ± 0.7	43.8 ± 0.8	0.337

The significance level has been considered p < 0.05; hence as all bold numbers in the table are less than 0.05, all of them are significant" to "p < 0.05 are in bold

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