Table 2. Scores of the groups of risk and protective foods according to socioeconomic variables and the life style of the adolescents. Vitória de Santo Antão, Pernambuco, Brasil 2012.

Variables	Groups of foods
	Risk group			Protective group
	Median	IQR		Median	IQR
Gender
Male	0.2553	0.1567–0.3338		0.3980	0.1537–0.5073
Female	0.2559	0.1957–0.3236		0.3854	0.1659–0.4870
p-valuea	0.776			0.729
Age range
10–14 years	0.2712	0.1939–0.3393		0.3854	0.1715–0.4959
15–19 years	0.2434	0.1476–0.3123		0.3956	0.1448–0.4969
p-valuea	0.327			0.954
Area of residence
Urban area	0.2642	0.1835–0.3343		0.3967	0.1599–0.5087
Rural area	0.2447	0.1389–0.3020		0.3640	0.1546–0.4566
p-valuea	0.327			0.564
Socioeconomic class
A/B	0.2760	0.1979–0.3426		0.4016	0.1656–0.5599
C	0.2707	0.1851–0.3332		0.3956	0.1620–0.4914
D/E	0.2371	0.1467–0.3145		0.3803	0.1545–0.4748
p-valuea	0.613			0.813
Maternal schooling
≤9 years	0.2556	0.1662–0.3235		0.3820	0.1589–0.4792
>9 years	0.2717	0.1885–0.3349		0.4021	0.1652–0.5247
p-valuea	<0.001			0.683
Level of physical activity
Active	0.2649	0.1747–0.3677		0.3743	0.1702–0.5757
Sedentary	0.2613	0.1754–0.3225		0.3938	0.1602–0.4848
p-valuea	0.635			0.773
Smoking status
Smoker	0.2520	0.1996–0.2989		0.3534	0.1664–0.4952
Non-smoker	0.2621	0.1742–0.3279		0.3907	0.1605–0.4970
p-valuea	0.849			0.954
Alcohol consumption
Yes	0.2578	0.2039–0.3242		0.3972	0.1493–0.5396
No	0.2615	0.1740–0.3277		0.3909	0.1607–0.4954
p-valuea	0.874			0.954

IQR, interquartile range.

^aMann–Whitney U test.