TABLE 4.

Proportions in the total U.S. population and selected age-gender subgroups with total vegetable HEI-2005 score below 2.5 and equal to 5, 2001–2004¹

Subpopulation	n	Proportion <2.5 ± SE	Proportion = 5 ± SE
Males and females
2–3 y	937	0.69 ± 0.04	0.00 ± 0.00
4–8 y	1701	0.71 ± 0.04	0.00 ± 0.00
Males
9–13 y	1061	0.57 ± 0.04	0.02 ± 0.01
14–18 y	1424	0.55 ± 0.04	0.01 ± 0.01
19–30 y	1100	0.38 ± 0.03	0.03 ± 0.01
31–50 y	1466	0.25 ± 0.03	0.07 ± 0.01
51–70 y	1252	0.15 ± 0.02	0.17 ± 0.03
≥71 y	832	0.17 ± 0.03	0.19 ± 0.02
≥19 y	4650	0.25 ± 0.02	0.10 ± 0.01
Females
9–13 y	1112	0.50 ± 0.04	0.03 ± 0.01
14–18 y	1362	0.46 ± 0.04	0.04 ± 0.01
19–30 y	1325	0.27 ± 0.03	0.09 ± 0.02
31–50 y	1595	0.17 ± 0.02	0.16 ± 0.02
51–70 y	1284	0.09 ± 0.02	0.30 ± 0.02
≥71 y	860	0.09 ± 0.02	0.33 ± 0.03
≥19 y	5064	0.16 ± 0.02	0.20 ± 0.02
All persons
≥2 y	17,311	0.30 ± 0.01	0.12 ± 0.01

¹Estimated from data on 17,311 participants in NHANES, 2001–2004.