Table 1. Characteristics and intake of certain foods and nutrients by diet group among men.
Meat eaters (n = 168) | Fish eaters (n = 168) | Vegetarians (n = 167) | Vegans (n = 167) | ||||||
Characteristics | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | p1 |
Age (years) | 44.8 | 10.5 | 44.8 | 10.8 | 44.8 | 10.3 | 45.0 | 11.1 | >0.9 |
BMI (kg/m2)2 | 24.9 | 3.1 | 23.2 | 2.9 | 23.3 | 2.6 | 22.4 | 3.2 | <0.0001 |
Current smoking (n)3 | 23 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 0.1 |
Differences in means, medians and proportions were assessed using ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis tests and χ2 tests, respectively.
Data are missing for one or more participants: 30 for BMI and 4 for dairy milk.
The numbers of current smokers (current light+current heavy) are shown; the p-value corresponds to differences in proportions between all smoking categories (never, former, current light and current heavy) by diet group.
Total meat comprises red meat, processed meat, liver and poultry.
Fructose-rich drinks comprise fruit juice and sugar sweetened soft drinks.