Table 3.

Participant characteristics across quartiles (Q) of dietary pattern scores among 6298 women aged 50–69 years, Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Programme, 2008

	Dietary pattern
	‘Prudent’				‘Western’				‘Continental’
Characteristic	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
n	1574	1575	1575	1574	1574	1575	1575	1574	1574	1575	1575	1574
Age (years, mean)	57·2	57·4	57·8	57·8	57·1	57·7	57·9	57·6	59·3	58·3	57·1	55·8
Education (%)
Primary and secondary school	24·7	20·1	19·4	15·4	13·5	18·7	22·0	25·4	26·2	18·5	19·6	15·3
Upper secondary school	43·1	40·3	39·9	36·1	34·2	39·0	41·4	44·8	38·2	41·8	39·9	39·5
Academy/college/university (≤4 years)	20·8	24·9	23·4	28·5	28·1	25·4	23·6	20·5	22·4	23·6	24·1	27·4
Academy/college/university (>4 years)	11·4	14·7	17·3	20·0	24·2	16·9	13·1	9·3	13·2	16·1	16·4	17·8
BMI (kg/m2, mean)	25·7	25·6	25·5	25·4	25·1	25·4	25·8	25·9	25·5	25·6	25·5	25·5
Physical activity (min/week, mean)
Light	126·6	151·6	173·9	191·7	167·1	168·3	157·6	155·2	170·6	159·5	164·0	154·9
Moderate	68·6	84·0	97·7	118·1	102·3	96·3	87·4	86·2	107·5	91·8	87·6	86·6
Strenuous	29·9	38·7	46·6	59·8	56·1	46·0	38·2	37·4	45·1	43·5	42·5	45·7
Physical activity level (MET-h/week, mean)	13·8	17·1	20·0	23·8	21·3	19·6	17·5	17·2	20·3	18·6	18·3	18·3
Smoking (%)	27·5	18·8	16·3	14·9	17·2	16·8	19·7	23·8	15·5	17·0	20·4	24·6
Alcohol (g/d, mean)	7·0	7·7	7·7	8·7	11·6	8·1	6·5	5·2	3·7	6·1	9·0	11·7
Supplement user (%)*	75·2	82·9	85·1	88·2	83·4	84·3	83·6	80·1	86·1	83·0	82·9	79·2

MET, metabolic equivalent of task.

^*Data missing for 118 women.