Table 4.
Percentage of Persons Subject to Each Intervention on Fish Consumption in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, 1990–2008, and the Nurses’ Health Study, 1986–2008, United States
| Intervention | HPFS (n = 25,797 men) |
NHS (n = 53,772 women) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interventions, %a | Interventions per Period, mean %b | Interventions, %a | Interventions per Period, mean %b | |
| No intervention | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 Fish servings/week | 100 | 84 | 100 | 80 |
| ≥1 Fish serving/week | 57 | 20 | 75 | 26 |
| ≥2 Fish servings/week | 90 | 46 | 94 | 46 |
| ≥3 Fish servings/week | 97 | 64 | 99 | 65 |
| ≥5 Fish servings/week | 100 | 77 | 100 | 86 |
| Meat replaced with fish to attain ≥1 serving/week | 57 | 19 | 75 | 26 |
| Meat replaced with fish to attain ≥2 servings/week | 90 | 46 | 94 | 46 |
| Meat replaced with fish to attain ≥3 servings/week | 98 | 64 | 99 | 65 |
| Meat replaced with fish to attain ≥5 servings/week | 100 | 77 | 100 | 86 |
Abbreviations: HPFS, Health Professionals Follow-Up Study; NHS, Nurses’ Health Study.
a Percentage of persons who received the intervention.
b Average number of individuals per period in which an intervention was necessary.