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. 2016 Aug 8;16:743. doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-3425-y

Table 2.

BMI, WC and WHtR changes by quartiles of dietary patterns across four survey years

Survey year
2004 2006 2009 2011 P for trend*
BMI
Traditional Mean (s.d) Mean (s.d) Mean (s.d) Mean (s.d)
 Q1 23.6 (3.8) 23.6 (3.9) 23.6 (3.8) 23.6 (4.0) 0.90
 Q2 23.6 (4.0) 23.3 (4.0) 22.9 (4.0) 23.3 (4.0) 0.004
 Q3 23.0 (3.6) 22.4 (3.5) 22.7 (3.7) 22.5 (3.6) 0.52
 Q4 22.2 (3.4) 22.5 (3.5) 22.5 (3.7) 22.4 (3.5) 0.50
Modern
 Q1 22.0 (3.5) 22.1 (3.6) 22.1 (3.8) 21.9 (3.3) 0.15
 Q2 22.7 (3.8) 22.3 (3.7) 22.3 (3.6) 22.6 (3.8) 0.33
 Q3 23.7 (3.7) 23.4 (3.8) 23.3 (3.9) 23.2 (3.8) 0.06
 Q4 24.2 (3.7) 24.1 (3.7) 24.0 (3.6) 23.6 (3.9) 0.004
Weight
Traditional
 Q1 60.0 (11.7) 59.4 (11.7) 59.5 (11.7) 59.3 (12.6) 0.01
 Q2 58.5 (11.8) 57.4 (11.8) 56.1 (12.3) 56.6 (11.4) <0.001
 Q3 55.9 (11.0) 54.5 (10.5) 55.8 (11.2) 54.8 (11.1) 0.34
 Q4 55.3 (10.9) 56.4 (11.0) 56.5 (11.1) 55.3 (10.9) 0.02
Modern
 Q1 53.5 (10.6) 53.1 (10.3) 53.1 (10.6) 51.8 (10.0) 0.04
 Q2 55.4 (11.0) 53.6 (10.5) 54.2 (10.9) 54.0 (10.4) 0.37
 Q3 59.1 (11.5) 58.7 (10.7) 58.3 (11.9) 57.5 (11.9) 0.001
 Q4 62.8 (10.9) 62.1 (11.4) 61.5 (11.2) 60.1 (12.0) <0.001
WC
Traditional
 Q1 84.4 (11.5) 84.7 (11.1) 86.1 (10.5) 86.2 (10.8) <0.001
 Q2 84.3 (11.0) 84.4 (10.5) 83.4 (10.9) 85.2 (10.5) 0.29
 Q3 82.6 (10.3) 81.7 (10.0) 83.6 (10.9) 82.9 (10.7) 0.007
 Q4 80.6 (10.3) 81.8 (10.6) 82.4 (10.5) 82.6 (10.7) 0.001
Modern
 Q1 80.8 (10.2) 80.6 (10.0) 81.4 (10.3) 81.3 (9.9) 0.004
 Q2 81.2 (10.9) 80.9 (10.1) 82.4 (10.6) 83.2 (11.0) <0.001
 Q3 83.9 (11.5) 84.6 (10.9) 84.5 (11.1) 85.4 (10.6) 0.04
 Q4 86.5 (10.0) 86.4 (10.6) 86.8 (10.3) 85.7 (10.7) 0.57
Hypertension
SBP
Traditional
 Q1 133.0 (21.7) 132.0 (20.0) 135.3 (19.0) 136.1 (18.7) <0.001
 Q2 136.0 (22.4) 132.7 (22.1) 137.0 (21.0) 136.1 (21.3) 0.05
 Q3 133.7 (22.5) 130.9 (21.0) 136.8 (20.0) 135.8 (21.4) 0.002
 Q4 133.4 (21.6) 132.2 (20.5) 135.8 (21.9) 135.3 (22.6) 0.008
Modern
 Q1 132.2 (23.9) 130.3 (21.4) 133.4 (19.8) 132.0 (24.1) 0.14
 Q2 135.0 (22.1) 129.7 (20.7) 136.9 (22.2) 137.2 (20.4) 0.002
 Q3 135.2 (21.7) 134.2 (20.8) 136.4 (19.3) 137.0 (19.3) 0.06
 Q4 133.9 (19.6) 133.5 (20.5) 138.1 (20.3) 135.8 (20.9) 0.001
DBP
Traditional
 Q1 81.8 (12.4) 81.7 (11.4) 83.9 (11.8) 82.0 (10.1) 0.03
 Q2 82.2 (13.3) 81.6 (13.0) 82.5 (12.2) 79.9 (11.8) 0.33
 Q3 80.3 (12.0) 80.4 (12.2) 81.3 (11.3) 78.6 (12.4) 0.62
 Q4 80.5 (11.5) 80.7 (11.3) 81.3 (11.5) 78.1 (11.5) 0.03
Modern
 Q1 81.4 (13.7) 80.2 (12.2) 82.3 (12.3) 77.0 (12.4) 0.20
 Q2 80.8 (12.5) 79.5 (11.7) 81.6 (12.1) 80.7 (11.8) 0.19
 Q3 81.8 (11.5) 82.6 (12.7) 82.6 (12.1) 79.7 (10.8) 0.16
 Q4 80.7 (11.0) 82.0 (11.2) 82.4 (10.6) 80.4 (11.4) 0.92

* Linear regressions were used to examine the associations between both dietary patterns and BMI, weight, WC, SBP and DBP