Table 3.
Descriptive statistics of the Brazilian Healthy Eating Index Revised (BHEI-R) according to sociodemographic, anthropometric and lifestyle characteristics. ISA 2003 and 2008. São Paulo, SP, 2003–08.
| Variables | ISA 2003 |
ISA 2008 |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meana (SE) | pb | Meana (SE) | pb | |
| Sex | ||||
| Male | 54.25 (0.46) | 0.051 | 55.59 (0.66) | 0.059 |
| Female | 55.60 (0.59) | 57.14 (0.62) | ||
| Age group (years) | ||||
| 12 to 19b | 52.03 (0.59) | < 0.001 | 50.33 (0.41) | < 0.001 |
| 20 to 59 | 54.87 (0.46) | 56.47 (0.66) | ||
| 60 or older | 60.73 (0.51) | 62.78 (0.57) | ||
| Racec | ||||
| White | 55.28 (0.44) | 0.294 | 56.93 (0.61) | 0.106 |
| Non white | 54.56 (0.65) | 55.70 (0.61) | ||
| Nutritional statusc | ||||
| Not overweight | 54.49 (0.52) | 0.312 | 55.89 (0.61) | 0.090 |
| Overweight | 55.27 (0.61) | 57.31 (0.68) | ||
| Leisure-time physical activityc, d | ||||
| Activeb | 55.23 (1.07) | 0.870 | 56.57 (0.54) | 0.436 |
| Not activeb | 55.04 (0.45) | 55.50 (1.29) | ||
| Smoking habitsc | ||||
| Never smoked | 55.15 (0.46) | < 0.001 | 55.77 (0.37) | < 0.001 |
| Former smoker | 57.39 (0.86) | 61.16 (0.65) | ||
| Smoker | 52.70 (0.72) | 54.69 (0.81) | ||
| Alcoholic beverage consumptionc | ||||
| No | 55.65 (0.52) | 0.029 | 57.01 (0.56) | 0.193 |
| Yes | 54.54 (0.51) | 55.87 (0.75) | ||
SE – Standard Error.
a
eighted mean.
b
Wald test or One-way analysis of variance.
c
Exclusion of individuals with ignored information.
d
Active individual practicing at least 30 min of low or moderate intensity physical activity daily, five or more days of the week, or practicing at least 20 min of vigorous intensity physical activity daily, 3 or more days of the week.