The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Indexed in /covered by CAS, KoreaScience & DOI/Crossref:eISSN 2287-156X   pISSN 1229-0475

The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Indexed in /covered by CAS, KoreaScience & DOI/Crossref:eISSN 2287-156X pISSN 1229-0475

Table. 2.

Table. 2.

Health-associated factors of participants according to COPD

Factors Categories COPD (n= 748) Normal (n= 1,379) p


M± SE or % M± SE or %
BMI Low 2.6 0.9 0.002*
Normal 66.3 61.6
Overweight 29.4 61.6
Obesity 1.7 2.5
Smoking status Current 20.8 2.9 < 0.001*
Past 46.4 20.6
Non 32.9 76.5
Drinking status Yes 50.7 32.6 < 0.001*
No 49.3 67.4
Aerobic exercise Yes 50.3 50.9 0.837
Resistance exercise Never 78.2 79.3 0.061
Mid 7.9 10.0
High 13.9 10.6
Lung function FVC 3.20± 0.03 2.94± 0.02 < 0.001*
FVC (% predicted) 83.88± 0.59 92.21± 0.27 < 0.001*
FEV1 2.00± 0.02 2.27± 0.01 < 0.001*
FEV1/FVC 0.63± 0.00 0.77± 0.00 < 0.001*
Comorbidities conditions
Hypertension 42.1 47.4 0.042*
Diabetes 52.8 50.6 0.406
High triglyceride 31.7 29.1 0.280
Low HDL-C 39.5 44.9 0.045*
Abdominal obesity 33.6 38.50 0.055

M±SE: mean±standard error. BMI=body mass index, HDL=high density lipoprotein. *p<0.05.

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