Table 6.
Comparison between accurate reporters and misreporters and between undereaters and everyone else for selected characteristics
| Misreporters N=191 |
Accurate reporters N=105 |
P-value | Undereaters N=44 |
Others N=252 |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age, mean (SD), y | 74.9 (2.9) | 74.7 (3.0) | 0.77 | 74.2 (3.0) | 74.9 (3.0) | 0.16 |
| Black, % | 47 (44.8) | 95 (49.7) | 0.42 | 16 (36.4) | 126 (50.0) | 1.0 |
| Women, % | 51 (48.6) | 98 (51.3) | 0.65 | 20 (45.5) | 129 (51.2) | 0.6 |
| Weight, mean (SD), Kg | 75.4 (15.2) | 78.1 (16.3) | 0.15 | 83.9 (17.5) | 75.0 (15.0) | 0.34 |
| Energy intake, mean (SD), Kcal | 1860.6 (868.7) | 1792.2 (752.8) | 0.50 | 1278.3 (343.0) | 1933.8 (850.4) | <0.001 |
| Healthy Eating Index score, mean (SD) | 66.4 (13.5) | 67.6 (12.1) | 0.44 | 68.1 (12.9) | 66.6 (13.0) | 0.48 |
| Appetite and restraint score >8, % | 47 (45) | 87 (46) | 0.84 | 20 (45.5) | 114 (45.6) | 1.0 |
| Good appetite (self rated) | 24 (22.9) | 31 (16.2) | 0.16 | 35 (79.5) | 206 (81.7) | 0.73 |
| Better appetite (self rated) | 15 (14.4) | 25 (13.2) | 0.76 | 5 (11.4) | 35 (13.9) | 0.65 |
| Poor/fair health (self-rated) | 22 (21) | 32 (16.8) | 0.37 | 7 (15.9) | 47 (18.7) | 0.6 |
| Number of medications, mean (SD) | 4.8 (3.7) | 5.7 (4.0) | 0.057 | 5.7 (3.9) | 5.0 (3.8) | 0.24 |
| Cognitive function-3MS, mean (SD) | 89.1 (8.6) | 88.4 (10.5) | 0.58 | 89.7 (10.2) | 88.7 (9.2) | 0.5 |
| Depression CES-D-10 score, mean (SD) | 4.0 (3.6) | 4.7 (4.4) | 0.15 | 4.6 (4.5) | 4.2 (3.8) | 0.6 |