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. 2012 Jul 17;2012:191465. doi: 10.1155/2012/191465

Table 4.

Cross tabulations of percentiles of HEI by percentiles of PA.

Quartiles of physical activity (MET/wk) Quartiles of Healthy Eating Index, 2005 Total
19.3–41.85 41.86–50.20 50.21–58.06 58.07–84.1
N 67a 56a,b 50a,b 36b 209
1 % within PA 32.1 26.8 23.9 17.2 100.0
% within HEI 32.5 27.1 24.2 17.5 25.3%

N 46a 51a 46a 64a 207
2 % within PA 22.2 24.6 22.2 30.9 100.0
% within HEI 22.3 24.6 22.2 31.1 25.1

N 43a 43a 53a,b 69b 208
3 % within PA_ 20.7 20.7 25.5 33.2 100.0
% within HEI 20.9 20.8 25.6 33.5 25.2

N 50a 57a 58a 37a 202
4 % within PA 24.8 28.2 28.7 18.3 100.0
% within HEI 24.3 27.5 28.0 18.0 24.5

N 206 207 207 206 826
Total % within PA 24.9 25.1 25.1 24.9 100.0
% within HEI 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Notes. Each superscript letter denotes a subset of quartiles of Healthy Eating Index (HEI) categories whose column proportions do not differ significantly from each other at the alpha = 0.05 level. This option computes pairwise comparisons of column proportions and indicates which pairs of columns (for a given row) are significantly different, applying the Bonferroni correction. Different superscripts represent quartiles that differ at the alpha = 0.05 level. Quartiles of HEI score presented are rounded versions for informational purpose. Actual quartiles were calculated to the 0.001 place. Missing values (n = 32) were participants with total energies of either < 500 or > 5000 Kcal. The range of HEI-05 was 19.3–84.1 (based on a possible range of 0–100).

Model parameters. χ 2 (9) (N = 826) = 28.1, P = 0.001.