Associations of sport and exercise participation in adolescence with body composition and device-measured physical activity in adulthood: longitudinal data from the Norwegian HUNT study

Table 2 The association between adolescent sport and exercise participation and minutes per week with device-measured moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in adulthood

Sport and exercise participation	No. of people	Mean MVPA min/week	Crude mean difference	Adjusted* mean difference (95% CI)
Days per week
<1 day	366	222	0.0 (ref.)	0.0 (ref.)
1 day	319	224	2	3 (-18 to 24)
2–3 days	938	244	22	23 (6 to 40)
4–6 days	597	270	48	47 (29 to 65)
Every day	178	274	52	48 (23 to 73)
Hours per week
<1 h	381	227	0.0 (ref.)	0.0 (ref.)
1–1.5 h	346	226	-1	1 (-19 to 21)
2–3 h	624	241	14	14 (-4 to 32)
4–6 h	660	251	24	25 (8 to 43)
≥7 h	390	288	61	57 (38 to 77)
Competing in sports^†
No	308	220	0.0 (ref.)	0.0 (ref.)
No, but used to	782	235	16	11 (-7 to 30)
Yes	1124	264	44	40 (22 to 58)

^* Adjusted for baseline age (continuous), sex (male, female), HUNT survey (Young-HUNT1, Young-HUNT3), and parental education (low, medium, high)
^† 184 people with missing data
CI, Confidence interval; MVPA, moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity

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