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. 2009 Jan 6;6(1):121–150. doi: 10.3390/ijerph6010121

Table 3.

Actual values for surrogate tertiles of usual daily total fat, saturated, mono-, and poly-unsaturated fatty acid, fibre, alcohol, caffeine, and theobromine intakes with the food-frequency questionnaire and the 7 d estimated diet records as surrogate and reference method, respectively.

1st tertile 2ndtertile 3rd tertile P
Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD
Total fat (g/d) 61.8 11.7 74.8 14.4 78.2 23.6 0.103μ
Saturated fatty acids (g/d) 26.3 7.30 30.1 6.15 32.8 12.8 0.303μ
Mono-unsaturated fatty acids (g/d) 22.0 4.16 27.4 7.18 31.7 8.54 0.017μ
Poly-unsaturated fatty acids (g/d) 9.33 2.45 12.7 3.00 12.3 2.34 0.015μ
Fibres (g/d) 21.6 4.09 20.6 3.96 27.3 5.53 0.002μ
Alcohol (g/d) 1.43 3.37 5.03 5.08 21.8 9.52 0.001
Caffeine (mg/d) 130 105 168 71.4 314 122 0.001μ
Theobromine (mg/d) 22.1 35.1 53.1 51.6 61.8 60.0 0.016
μ

One-way ANOVA test;

Median test