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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 28.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Nutr. 2015 Feb 6;113(4):634–643. doi: 10.1017/S0007114514003596

TABLE 1.

Characteristics of Yup’ik study participants included in confirmatory factor analysis, test-retest reliability analysis, and full cohort association analysis, by community location.

All communities Coastal communities Inland communities
Confirmatory Factor Analysis (September 2011–May 2013)
 Sample size 272 176 96
 Median age in years (25th–75th %tile) 33.0 (22.0–51.5) 29.0 (21.0–50.5) 34.5 (23.0–52.0)
 Sex (% male) 52.9 52.8 53.1
 Kass’aq (white) lifestyle (%)*
  Missing 0.4 0.6 0.0
  Not at all/some 81.3 84.1 76.0
  A lot 18.4 15.3 24.0
 Yup’ik lifestyle (%)*
  Missing 0.7 0.6 1.0
  Not at all/some 45.6 47.2 42.7
  A lot 53.7 52.3 56.3

Test-retest (September 2009–May 2013)
 Sample size 113 83 30
 Median age in years at FFQ1 (25th–75th %tile) 43.0 (29.0–58.0) 43.0 (26.0–62.0) 45.0 (33.0–52.0)
 Median age in years at FFQ2 (25th–75th %tile) 45.0 (32.0–60.0) 45.0 (28.0–64.0) 47.0 (35.0–54.0)
 Sex (% male) 38.9 37.4 43.3
 Kass’aq (white) lifestyle (%)*
  Missing 0.0 0.0 0.0
  Not at all/some 82.3 80.7 86.7
  A lot 17.7 19.3 13.3
 Yup’ik lifestyle (%)*
  Missing 0.9 1.2 0.0
  Not at all/some 44.3 43.4 46.7
  A lot 54.9 55.4 53.3

Association Study (September 2009–May 2013)
 Sample size 637 389 248
 Median age in years (25th–75th %tile) 37.0 (23.0–54.0) 37.0 (23.0–54.0) 38.0 (23.5–54.0)
 Sex (% male) 46.2 46.0 46.4
 Kass’aq (white) lifestyle (%)*
  Missing 0.3 0.3 0.4
  Not at all/some 82.4 81.2 84.3
  A lot 17.3 18.5 15.3
 Yup’ik lifestyle (%)*
  Missing 0.6 0.8 0.4
  Not at all/some 45.5 47.3 42.7
  A lot 53.9 51.9 56.9
*

self-reported