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Table 1 Baseline demographic, clinical and anthropometric characteristics of patients in the exercise and non-exercising disease control groups

From: Moderate-intensity aerobic and resistance exercise is safe and favorably influences body composition in patients with quiescent Inflammatory Bowel Disease: a randomized controlled cross-over trial

 

Exercise group (n = 13)

Control group (n = 7)

p-value

Age (years)

33 (31, 36)

31 (31, 36)

0.938

Sex (female)

n = 4 (30.8%)

n = 1 (14.3%)

0.417a

Height (cm)

172 (165, 179)

173 (167, 183)

0.485

Weight (kg)

84.5 (75.8, 97)

89 (70.5, 102.9)

0.757

BMI (kg/m2)

28.1 (26.2, 32.4)

27.2 (24.5, 33.7)

0.938

Resting heart rate (Beats per minute)

73 (64, 77)

76 (58, 83)

0.817

Systolic Blood Pressure (mmHg)

123 (114, 131)

124 (119, 130)

0.485

Diastolic Blood Pressure (mmHg)

73 (69, 86)

82 (70, 86)

0.311

Body fat (%)

35.2 (30.9, 37.4)

34.2 (32.2, 35.7)

0.817

Fat mass - total (kg)

28.1 (22.8, 35.7)

29.9 (23.8, 34.7)

0.938

Fat mass - trunk (kg)

14.7 (12.9, 21.3)

16.8 (13.1, 22.2)

0.699

Lean tissue mass (kg)

50.2 (44, 61.6)

52.69 (45.8, 63.8)

0.643

Estimated weekly physical activity (kCals)

1017 (283, 1399)

266.9 (0, 1039)

0.097

  1. Median values (inter-quartile ranges) are stated. Mann-Whitney U or Chi-squared test used to compare groups as appropriate. aIndicates Chi-squared test