Table 3.
Dietary intakes across categories of the total antioxidant capacity score with stratification by menopausal status
| Variable | Premenopause | Postmenopause | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quartile 1 | Quartile 2 | Quartile 3 | Quartile 4 | P value | Quartile 1 | Quartile 2 | Quartile 3 | Quartile 4 | P value | |||||||||
| Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | |||
| n | 142 | 142 | 142 | 142 | 73 | 73 | 73 | 72 | ||||||||||
| Food groups | ||||||||||||||||||
| Whole grains (g/d) | 99·7 | 113·5 | 88·4 | 118·7 | 87·0 | 85·0 | 81·9 | 77·9 | 0·49 | 108·5 | 113·8 | 88·37 | 69·0 | 100·9 | 117·2 | 100·1 | 77·9 | 0·65 |
| Refined grains (g/d) | 383·2 | 197·2 | 312·5 | 155·9 | 288·9 | 140·1 | 321·5 | 214·3 | <0·001 | 346·2 | 170·5 | 281·8 | 160·4 | 247·2 | 149·6 | 260·9 | 147·4 | <0·001 |
| Fruits (g/d) | 366·2 | 231·7 | 476·8 | 244·5 | 573·9 | 305·0 | 813·1 | 510·7 | <0·001 | 383·0 | 265·3 | 527·4 | 333·3 | 631·8 | 338·1 | 796·8 | 434·6 | <0·001 |
| Vegetables (g/d) | 269·4 | 192·9 | 322·9 | 197·7 | 308·2 | 201·6 | 450·4 | 300·7 | <0·001 | 277·5 | 187·8 | 321·8 | 181·7 | 373·4 | 240·0 | 449·5 | 315·0 | <0·001 |
| Legumes (g/d) | 44·7 | 40·8 | 48·4 | 69·2 | 47·9 | 47·3 | 57·8 | 115·1 | 0·47 | 45·4 | 49·5 | 49·6 | 55·6 | 48·4 | 66·5 | 53·8 | 61·5 | 0·85 |
| Red meat (g/d) | 18·8 | 32·0 | 15·8 | 16·1 | 14·1 | 13·8 | 14·6 | 15·9 | 0·22 | 13·9 | 33·4 | 13·3 | 13·4 | 12·6 | 9·9 | 13·3 | 11·1 | 0·98 |
| Low fat dairy (g/d) | 47·8 | 107·4 | 68·2 | 146·7 | 64·8 | 118·1 | 72·3 | 154·8 | 0·42 | 55·7 | 100·4 | 80·2 | 150·3 | 55·4 | 93·6 | 76·5 | 156·6 | 0·50 |
| High-fat dairy (g/d) | 349·5 | 263·1 | 375·5 | 284·1 | 389·3 | 288·3 | 394·6 | 275·3 | 0·52 | 334·6 | 259·7 | 343·7 | 269·1 | 391·6 | 238·6 | 424·3 | 312·3 | 0·15 |
| Nutrients | ||||||||||||||||||
| Energy (kcal) | 2870·5 | 2482·7 | 2366·1 | 2671·9 | <0·001 | 2699·3 | 2285·2 | 2322·9 | 2419·5 | 0·01 | ||||||||
| Carbohydrate intake (g/d) | 336·8 | 129·0 | 307·0 | 103·4 | 307·8 | 104·3 | 363·3 | 132·4 | <0·001 | 313·4 | 109·3 | 294·7 | 118·0 | 300·2 | 115·0 | 336·4 | 115·9 | 0·13 |
| Protein intake (g/d) | 78·0 | 32·3 | 77·1 | 39·4 | 72·6 | 24·6 | 85·1 | 37·7 | 0·02 | 76·0 | 30·3 | 72·9 | 26·8 | 76·1 | 34·4 | 80·9 | 29·2 | 0·45 |
| Fat intake (g/d) | 140·3 | 68·4 | 110·7 | 49·4 | 99·6 | 49·4 | 105·2 | 49·1 | <0·001 | 132·0 | 71·9 | 95·8 | 47·6 | 96·5 | 45·1 | 90·3 | 37·5 | <0·001 |
| Saturated fat (g/d) | 51·5 | 32·6 | 34·5 | 21·2 | 31·9 | 22·5 | 32·6 | 21·7 | <0·001 | 50·5 | 33·7 | 31·5 | 20·5 | 32·8 | 21·2 | 25·9 | 14·4 | <0·001 |
| Fibre intake (g/d) | 19·6 | 8·4 | 20·5 | 7·7 | 21·4 | 8·3 | 27·8 | 13·7 | <0·001 | 18·2 | 7·5 | 20·7 | 8·9 | 22·3 | 9·8 | 26·6 | 11·1 | <0·001 |
| Iron (mg) | 20·7 | 10·1 | 18·9 | 8·3 | 19·1 | 7·9 | 22·4 | 9·7 | 0·004 | 20·0 | 8·7 | 19·0 | 9·2 | 19·4 | 9·3 | 21·8 | 8·7 | 0·24 |
| Folic acid (µg) | 226·2 | 109·5 | 245·7 | 86·8 | 251·1 | 86·6 | 337·6 | 145·3 | <0·001 | 221·4 | 97·6 | 245·1 | 93·1 | 280·4 | 111·4 | 347·8 | 157·4 | <0·001 |
| Vitamin B6 (mg) | 1·53 | 0·65 | 1·62 | 0·71 | 1·59 | 0·53 | 2·13 | 0·92 | <0·001 | 1·46 | 0·56 | 1·62 | 0·64 | 1·80 | 0·77 | 2·03 | 0·75 | <0·001 |
| Vitamin B12 | 2·57 | 1·85 | 2·60 | 1·77 | 2·41 | 1·60 | 2·85 | 1·83 | 0·21 | 2·47 | 1·62 | 2·53 | 1·91 | 2·66 | 2·21 | 2·56 | 2·42 | 0·95 |
| Vitamin E (mg) | 23·6 | 13·4 | 23·1 | 13·2 | 20·8 | 11·4 | 23·2 | 12·2 | 0·23 | 20·6 | 11·4 | 18·8 | 12·1 | 17·8 | 9·3 | 18·7 | 11·4 | 0·50 |
P values were determined by the ANOVA test.