Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Table 4 Association between physical activity and health-related quality of life by sex

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

	Men			Women
	Total	Leisure time	Job	Total	Leisure time	Job
SF-12
Physical Function	0.11^**	0.10^**	0.03	0.14^**	0.05^*	0.12^**
Role Physical	0.04^*	0.05^*	0.0	0.11^**	0.06^**	0.09^**
Bodily pain	0.01	0.02	−0.01	0.06^**	0.04	0.03
General Health	0.10^**	0.14^**	−0.01	0.10^**	0.05^*	0.05^**
PCS	0.08^**	0.10^**	0.0	0.13^**	0.05^*	0.10^**
Vitality	0.12^**	0.14^**	0.05^**	0.15^**	0.12^**	0.10^**
Social Function	0.0	0.02	0.0	0.04^*	0.05^*	0.02
Role Emotional	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.04^**	0.07^**	0.02
Mental Health	0.03	0.05^*	0.01	0.05^**	0.06^**	0.02
MCS	0.03	0.04	0.02	0.04^**	0.08^**	0.01

Spearman correlation coefficients have been reported
^*p < 0.05, ^**p < 0.01
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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