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. 2017 Jul;27(4):401–410. doi: 10.4314/ejhs.v27i4.11

Table 3.

Description of characteristics among quartiles of vegetables intake

Variable Q1#
Mean ± SD
Q2
Mean ± SD
Q3
Mean ± SD
Q4
Mean ± SD
P P*
Age (year) 30.81± 8.40a,b,c** 35.80 ± 7.83a 35.84 ± 8.83b 37.28 ± 8.99c <0.001 <0.001
Anthropometric
BMI (kg/m2) 25.99 ± 5.20 25.83 ± 4.80 25.64 ± 5.31 25.94 ± 4.15 0.978 0.09
Waist (cm) 89.83 ± 13.65 88.58 ± 12.00 88.10 ± 13.72 87.68 ± 10.63 0.796 0.67
Hip (cm) 102.42 ± 10.74 102.35 ± 7.93 102.25± 10.71 102.69 ± 8.57 0.995 0.84
Fat percent (%) 22.80 ± 9.62d 24.15 ± 9.82 26.57 ± 8.31 28.39 ± 8.55d 0.004 0.60
Visceralfatrating 5.19 ± 3.71 5.78 ± 3.34 5.22 ± 3.22 5.62 ± 3.19 0.711 0.50
Biochemical
FBS(mmol/L) 93.07 ± 17.39 93.37 ± 9.73 91.49 ± 8.52 98.14 ± 30.43 0.216 0.17
TG (mmol/L) 130.75 ± 82.45 138.21 ± 97.46 117.03± 92.64 114.12±91.98 0.396 0.61
TC (mg/dL) 186.09 ± 45.48 187.75 ± 35.38 186.01± 40.36 176.32±33.65 0.333 0.02
HDL (mg/dL) 47.09 ± 10.64 47.62 ± 12.20 49.19 ± 12.41 50.89 ± 11.33 0.251 0.58
LDL (mg/dL) 103.07 ± 31.77 102.92 ± 22.17 102.93± 27.61 94.76 ± 22.83 0.202 0.03
AST(Iu/L) 22.31 ± 7.95 19.78 ± 6.04 19.60 ± 6.13 19.53 ± 6.04 0.050 0.27
ALT(Iu/L) 21.82 ± 15.78e,f,g 15.84 ± 8.61e 15.42 ± 8.88f 15.04 ± 7.99g 0.001 0.08
hs-CRP (mg/L) 2.68 ± 3.80 1.70 ± 2.57 2.12 ± 2.73 2.70 ± 4.00 0.268 0.89
SBP (mmHg) 12.00 ± 1.40 11.90 ± 1.16 11.86 ± 1.29 11.96 ± 1.35 0.936 0.45
DBP (mmHg) 7.80 ± 0.96 7.73 ± 0.93 7.63 ± 1.00 7.72 ± 0.76 0.802 0.43
#

Quartiles of vegetables intake;

*

p value reported after adjusting age, sexand weight with ancova model

**

The same letters demonstrated the significant value from Tuckey procedure of Posthoc analyzes through

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