. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 23.

Published in final edited form as: Public Health Nutr. 2010 Oct 29;14(5):889–895. doi: 10.1017/S136898001000296X

Table 2.

Component loading for eating patterns from principal component analysis, Sister Study, 2003–2007 (N 27 983) Frequency (times/week)

	Frequency (times/week)		Component 1: Eating episodes during conventional eating hours	Component 2: Dominance of snacks over meals
	Mean	SD		Component 2: Dominance of snacks over meals
Breakfast	5·6	2·0	0·49	−0·13
Lunch	6·0	1·1	0·54	−0·16
Dinner	6·4	1·1	0·47	−0·19
Snack before breakfast	0·8	1·0	−0·08	0·46
Snack between breakfast and lunch	2·2	2·1	0·28	0·46
Snack between lunch and dinner	3·5	2·2	0·36	0·41
Snack after dinner	3·0	2·3	0·14	0·37
Snack after bedtime	0·8	0·9	−0·12	0·44
Variance explained (%)			23·80	20·20