Physically active primary care doctors are more likely to offer exercise counselling to patients with cardiovascular diseases: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Simple logistic regression for association between initiation of exercise counselling and confounding factors

Initiation of exercise counselling for chronic disease (‘Often initiates’ vs ‘Rarely initiates’)	Confounding factors	Odds Ratio	95% CI	p-value
Cardiovascular diseases	Age	1.023	0.997 – 1.051	0.085
	Gender (Male)	0.643	0.368 – 1.093	0.101
	BMI	1.507	0.910 – 2.495	0.111
	Smoking (Yes vs No)	0.131	0.014 – 1.193	0.071
	Hypertension	2.679	0.750 – 9.566	0.129
	Years Working			0.098^b
	Patients per day	0.982	0.971 – 0.994	0.002
Hypertension	Age	1.032	0.985 – 1.082	0.184
	Years Working			0.163^b
	Years in Primary Care			0.195^b
	Highest Qualification	3.117	1.284 – 7.567	0.012
	Patients per Day	0.104	0.972 – 1.003	0.987
Type 2 diabetes mellitus	Years Working			0.228^b
	Highest Qualification	2.364	0.889 – 6.291	0.085
	Patients per day	0.977	0.960 – 0.994	0.007
Obesity/metabolic syndrome	Having hypertension	0.212	0.040 – 1.109	0.066
Obesity/metabolic syndrome	Having dyslipidaemia	0.317	0.076 – 1.325	0.115
Dyslipidaemia	BMI	1.973	0.712 – 5.467	0.191
Dyslipidaemia	Having dyslipidaemia	0.475	0.145 – 1.556	0.219

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