Table 1 General characteristics of Lebanese adult athletes by total sample and gender.

Age (years)* mean, ±SD*

33.1

10.0

31.8

9.8

33.9

10.1

0.114

Height (cm) mean, ±SD*

172.5

9.4

163.8

6.6

177.4

6.7

0.000

Weight (kg) mean, ±SD*

73.3

15.8

62.1

10.9

79.7

14.5

0.000

BMI (kg/\(\:{\text{m}}^{2}\))* mean, ±SD*

24.7

3.8

24.1

3.8

25.0

3.8

0.053

BMI Category^†

Underweight

0.8

1.1

1

0.6

Normal weight

158

60.5

63

66.3

95

57.2

Overweight

73

27.9

21

22.1

52

31.3

Obese

28

10.7

10

10.5

18

10.8

0.419

Marital Status ^†

Single

137

52.5

60

63.2

77

46.4

Married

113

43.3

30

31.6

83

50.0

Divorced

10

3.83

4

4.2

6

3.6

Widowed

1

0.4

1

1.1

0

0

0.021

Educational level ^†

Pre- secondary school

22

8.4

6

6.3

16

9.6

High school education

54

20.7

17

17.9

37

22.3

College education

145

55.6

53

55.8

92

55.4

Postgraduate education

40

15.3

19

20.0

21

12.7

0.323

Household income^†(monthly - US Dollar)

Less than 100

31

11.9

9

9.5

22

13.3

Between 100–300

108

41.4

39

41.1

69

41.6

More than 300

122

46.7

47

49.5

75

45.2

0.616

Employment status ^†

Unemployed

66

25.3

42

44.2

24

14.5

Self-employee

31

11.9

5

5.3

26

15.7

Part- time employee

42

16.1

18

18.9

24

14.5

Full-time employee

122

46.7

30

31.6

92

55.4

0.000

Have Chronic disease ^†

Yes

34

13.0

23

67.6

11

32.4

0.000

Hypertension

7

20.6

0

0

7

63.6

Anemia

15

44.1

14

60.9

1

9.1

Asthma & respiratory disease

6

17.7

5

21.7

1

9.1

Others

6

17.7

4

17.4

2

18.2

0.000

Amount of sleep

≤ 5 h

6–10 h

11 + hours

Irregular

28

229

2

2

10.7

87.7

0.8

0.8

13

80

2

1

13.5

83.3

2.1

1.0

15

149

0

1

9.1

90.3

0

0.6

0.16