Table 3.

Component and total scores (expressed as means with their standard errors) on the Brazilian Healthy Eating Index-Revised (BHEI-R) according to structural social determinants of health among 643 adults (aged 20–59 years) and 545 older adults (aged ≥60 years) from the 2015 Health Survey of São Paulo (2015 ISA-Capital) with Focus on Nutrition Study (2015 ISA-Nutrition), Brazil

BHEI-R component (maximum score)*	Education†								Income‡								Occupation§								Sex					Race
	Low		Middle		P ║	High		P ║,¶	Low		Middle		P ║	High		P ║,¶	Blue collar		White collar		P ║	Other		P ║,¶	Male		Female		P ║	White		Races other than white		P ║
	Mean	se	Mean	se		Mean	se		Mean	se	Mean	se		Mean	se		Mean	se	Mean	se		Mean	se		Mean	se	Mean	se		Mean	se	Mean	se
Total fruit (5)	4·07	0·02	3·76	0·02	<0·001	3·74	0·02	<0·001	3·76	0·02	3·85	0·02	0·002	3·88	0·02	<0·001	3·76	0·01	3·73	0·02	0·251	4·12	0·02	<0·001	3·83	0·02	3·86	0·02	0·179	3·89	0·02	3·79	0·01	<0·001
Whole fruit (5)	3·73	0·02	3·44	0·02	<0·001	3·45	0·02	<0·001	3·46	0·02	3·52	0·02	0·024	3·56	0·03	0·002	3·41	0·01	3·44	0·02	0·326	3·82	0·02	<0·001	3·40	0·01	3·65	0·01	<0·001	3·59	0·02	3·46	0·01	<0·001
Total vegetable (5)	4·75	0·00	4·71	0·00	<0·001	4·70	0·00	<0·001	4·71	0·00	4·72	0·00	0·001	4·73	0·00	<0·001	4·71	0·00	4·70	0·00	0·005	4·76	0·00	<0·001	4·73	0·00	4·71	0·00	<0·001	4·73	0·00	4·71	0·00	<0·001
DGOV&L (5)	4·29	0·01	4·24	0·01	<0·001	4·21	0·01	<0·001	4·23	0·01	4·26	0·01	0·002	4·25	0·01	0·077	4·28	0·01	4·21	0·01	<0·001	4·25	0·01	0·008	4·39	0·00	4·11	0·00	<0·001	4·24	0·01	4·26	0·01	0·066
Total grains (5)	4·86	0·00	4·86	0·00	<0·001	4·86	0·00	0·399	4·86	0·00	4·86	0·00	0·327	4·86	0·00	0·709	4·87	0·00	4·86	0·00	<0·001	4·85	0·00	<0·001	4·89	0·00	4·84	0·00	<0·001	4·86	0·00	4·87	0·00	<0·001
Whole grains (5)	0·66	0·01	0·61	0·00	<0·001	0·62	0·01	<0·001	0·62	0·01	0·62	0·00	0·534	0·63	0·01	0·103	0·59	0·00	0·62	0·01	<0·001	0·69	0·00	<0·001	0·56	0·00	0·70	0·00	<0·001	0·64	0·00	0·61	0·00	<0·001
Milk and dairy (10)	5·47	0·03	5·18	0·03	<0·001	5·26	0·04	<0·001	5·24	0·03	5·25	0·03	0·875	5·32	0·05	0·206	5·07	0·03	5·27	0·04	<0·001	5·68	0·02	<0·001	4·80	0·01	5·76	0·02	<0·001	5·39	0·03	5·18	0·02	<0·001
Meats, eggs and legumes (10)	9·42	0·01	9·45	0·01	0·037	9·41	0·02	0·686	9·43	0·01	9·45	0·01	0·144	9·43	0·02	0·981	9·51	0·01	9·41	0·02	<0·001	9·34	0·01	<0·001	9·65	0·00	9·22	0·00	<0·001	9·40	0·01	9·47	0·01	<0·001
Oils (10)	9·88	0·00	9·90	0·00	<0·001	9·90	0·00	<0·001	9·90	0·00	9·90	0·00	0·129	9·89	0·00	0·017	9·91	0·00	9·90	0·00	0·017	9·86	0·00	<0·001	9·92	0·00	9·87	0·00	<0·001	9·89	0·00	9·90	0·00	<0·001
Saturated fat (10)	7·32	0·01	7·23	0·01	<0·001	7·18	0·02	<0·001	7·21	0·02	7·26	0·01	0·002	7·25	0·02	0·062	7·29	0·01	7·17	0·02	<0·001	7·25	0·01	0·026	7·47	0·01	7·02	0·01	<0·001	7·23	0·01	7·26	0·01	0·087
Sodium (10)	2·32	0·02	2·54	0·02	<0·001	2·61	0·02	<0·001	2·57	0·02	2·47	0·02	<0·001	2·47	0·02	0·002	2·48	0·02	2·63	0·03	<0·001	2·38	0·02	<0·001	2·24	0·01	2·76	0·01	<0·001	2·50	0·02	2·50	0·02	0·827
SoFAAS (20)	9·97	0·06	9·05	0·05	<0·001	8·97	0·06	<0·001	9·04	0·06	9·30	0·06	0·001	9·40	0·06	<0·001	9·08	0·04	8·93	0·07	0·076	10·09	0·06	<0·001	9·35	0·05	9·22	0·05	0·047	9·42	0·05	9·14	0·04	<0·001
BHEI-R (100)	66·74	0·11	65·00	0·10	<0·001	64·92	0·12	<0·001	65·02	0·11	65·47	0·11	0·004	65·68	0·13	<0·001	64·96	0·07	64·86	0·13	0·525	67·09	0·12	<0·001	65·22	0·09	65·71	0·09	<0·001	65·77	0·09	65·15	0·08	<0·001

DGOV&L, dark-green and orange vegetables and legumes; oils, vegetable oils, seed oils and fish oils; SoFAAS, energy from solid fat, alcohol and added sugar.

^*Analyses considered the sample weight and were adjusted by sex and age.

^†Education (low, <7 years; middle, 7–12 years; high, >12 years).

^‡Monthly household income per capita (low, <$US 236; middle, $US 236–708; high, >$US 708).

^§Excluded the category unemployed.

^║Descriptive level of the Wald test: P < 0·05.

^¶Wald test between low and high categories, or between blue collar and others.