Table 4.

Impact of BMI, total energy (kcal/day), SFA intake (% Energy), and vitamins C and E (mg/day) on DNA damage assessed by hierarchical linear regression analysis.

Model	B (SE)	P	β	R	R 2	F	P
Model 1				0.489	0.239	17.422	0.000
Age (years)	0.025 (0.035)	0.475	0.060
BMI (kg/m2)	0.323 (0.055)	0.000	0.491
Model 2				0.542	0.294	15.262	0.000
Age (years)	0.024 (0.033)	0.465	0.059
BMI (kg/m2)	0.239 (0.060)	0.000	0.364
Total Energy (kcal/day)	0.001 (0.000)	0.004	0.267
Model 3				0.551	0.303	11.857	0.000
Age (years)	0.023 (0.033)	0.486	0.056
BMI (kg/m2)	0.223 (0.062)	0.000	0.339
Total Energy (kcal/day)	0.001 (0.000)	0.022	0.226
Saturated Fat (% Energy)	0.079 (0.066)	0.231	0.112
Model 4				0.571	0.326	13.199	0.000
Age (years)	0.031 (0.033)	0.354	0.074
BMI (kg/m2)	0.212 (0.060)	0.001	0.323
Total Energy (kcal/day)	0.001 (0.000)	0.007	0.249
Vitamin E (mg/day)	−0.092 (0.040)	0.024	−0.188
Model 5				0.587	0.345	14.354	0.000
Age (years)	0.040 (0.033)	0.224	0.097
BMI (kg/m2)	0.213 (0.059)	0.000	0.323
Total Energy (kcal/day)	0.001 (0.000)	0.009	0.235
Vitamin C (mg/day)	−0.010 (0004)	0.004	−0.238
Model 6				0.596	0.355	11.913	0.000
Age (years)	0.041 (0.033)	0.212	0.099
BMI (kg/m2)	0.201 (0.059)	0.001	0.306
Total Energy (kcal/day)	0.001 (0.000)	0.011	0.230
Vitamin E (mg/day)	−0.056 (0.043)	0.189	−0.115
Vitamin C (mg/day)	−0.008 (0.004)	0.029	−0.194

B (SE) indicates unstandardized coefficients (standard error); β: standardized coefficients. Values were obtained by using multiple linear models.