Table 1.
Food Frequency (Times/Day) | Men | Women | ||||||||
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Survey 1 | Survey 2 | p-Value | r | Survey 1 | Survey 2 | p-Value | r | |||
n | Mean ± SD | n | Mean ± SD | |||||||
Animal food | ||||||||||
Seafood | 190 | 1.70 ± 1.06 | 1.65 ± 1.07 | 0.529 | 0.54* | 180 | 1.89 ± 1.26 | 1.67 ± 0.88 | 0.018 | 0.42* |
Meat | 201 | 0.90 ± 0.65 | 0.97 ± 0.76 | 0.106 | 0.63* | 194 | 0.95 ± 0.56 | 0.98 ± 0.54 | 0.519 | 0.54* |
Dairy products | 187 | 0.86 ± 0.77 | 1.00 ± 0.86 | 0.012 | 0.56* | 187 | 1.20 ± 0.92 | 1.33 ± 0.97 | 0.024 | 0.66* |
Egg | 219 | 0.58 ± 0.44 | 0.56 ± 0.39 | 0.301 | 0.54* | 217 | 0.59 ± 0.36 | 0.59 ± 0.37 | 0.879 | 0.53* |
Soy products | 197 | 1.76 ± 1.21 | 1.62 ± 1.15 | 0.074 | 0.56* | 189 | 1.98 ± 1.12 | 1.93 ± 1.30 | 0.533 | 0.57* |
First survey was conducted in February 2012 and second survey was conducted in September 2012. SD = standard deviation; r = correlation coefficients assessed by pairwise correlation coefficient; the differences between Frequency 1 and Frequency 2 assessed by the paired t-test; * p-value < 0.001.