Table 3.

Characteristics of participants according to tertials of adherence to the Eatwell Guide. Continuous variables are presented as the median and interquartile range, categorical variables as percentages-p values obtained from the Kruskal–Wallis H test for continuous variables and the Chi-squared test for categorical variables.

	EWG tertiles (0–9)
	1st (n = 1205)		2nd (n = 1988)		3rd (n = 969)
	(0–2)		(3–4)		(5–9)
Variables	Median	IQR	Median	IQR	Median	IQR	p
Age (years)	57.8	10.1	57.5	10.2	57.7	10.0	0.79
Time from baseline (years)	4.0	0.4	3.9	0.5	3.9	0.7	0.02
Weight baseline (kg)	63.5	12.2	63.5	12.7	62.1	13.6	<0.001
Weight Phase 2 (kg)	65.3	14.5	63.5	12.7	63.5	13.6	<0.001
Weight change (kg)	0.9	4.0	0.9	4.1	0.9	4.5	0.20
WC baseline (cm)	76.2	10.2	71.1	10.2	71.1	7.6	<0.001
WC Phase 2 (cm)	81.5	14.4	80.0	13.8	78.7	13.6	<0.001
WC difference (cm)	6.3	8.3	5.7	7.6	5.1	7.6	0.01
BMI baseline (kg/m2)	23.9	4.6	23.4	4.0	23.2	4.0	<0.001
BMI Phase 2 (kg/m2)	24.1	4.6	24.0	4.7	23.7	4.4	0.001
BMI change (kg/m2)	0.3	1.5	0.3	1.6	0.4	1.6	0.20
	%		%		%
Physical activitya	46.3		53.4		54.9		<0.001
HRT
Never	54.1		55.1		52.7		0.62
Current	32.7		30.9		32.4
Past	13.2		14.0		14.9
Education
No formal	17.2		17.3		19.9		0.40
O level	31.5		31.1		28.1
A level	27.6		26.8		27.2
Degree or above	23.7		24.8		24.8
Smoking
Never	61.5		61.5		60.3		0.05
Current	8.0		7.4		5.3
Former	30.5		31.1		34.5
Abdominal obesity baselineb	10.3		6.8		6.3		<0.001
Abdominal obesity Phase 2b	30.1		23.5		18.9		<0.001
Overweight or obese baselinec	37.2		31.3		28.4		<0.001
Overweight or obese Phase 2c	40.3		37.2		34.6		0.02

EWG: Eatwell Guide; IQR: interquartile range; WC: waist circumference; BMI: body mass index; HRT: hormone replacement therapy.

^aPhysical activity, percentage meeting recommendations.

^bAbdominal obesity WC >88 cm.

^cOverweight or obese ≥25 kg/m².