Table 2. Characteristics and intake of certain foods and nutrients by diet group among women.
| Meat eaters (n = 256) | Fish eaters (n = 257) | Vegetarians (n = 255) | Vegans (n = 255) | ||||||
| Characteristics | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | p1 |
| Age (years) | 40.4 | 11.1 | 40.7 | 10.7 | 40.4 | 10.8 | 40.2 | 11.4 | >0.9 |
| BMI (kg/m2)2 | 23.7 | 3.6 | 22.3 | 2.7 | 22.8 | 3.8 | 21.8 | 3.0 | <0.0001 |
| Current smoking (n)3 | 21 | 23 | 16 | 17 | 0.3 | ||||
1
Differences in means, medians and proportions were assessed using ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis tests and χ2 tests, respectively.
2
Data are missing for one or more participants: 34 for BMI and 4 for dairy milk.
3
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.
4
Total meat comprises red meat, processed meat, liver and poultry.
5
Fructose-rich drinks comprise fruit juice and sugar sweetened soft drinks.