Table 2.

Changes in dairy intake and dairy protein intake for each randomized group throughout the intervention period.

	Reduced Dairy Intake	Maintained Dairy Intake	Increased Dairy Intake	p-Value
Dairy intake (servings/day)
Baseline	3.0 ± 0.4	2.6 ± 0.3	2.1 ± 0.2	0.218 a
Post intervention	1.2 ± 0.4 †	2.1 ± 0.2	4.4 ± 0.8 *†	<0.001 b
Change	−1.6 ± 0.4	−0.5 ± 0.2	+2.3 ± 0.8 #	<0.001 c
Dairy protein intake (g/day)
Baseline	24.6 ± 3.3	22.0 ± 2.3	18.0 ± 1.9	0.208 a
Post intervention	9.9 ± 3.1 †	18.0 ± 1.9	31.8 ± 3.9 *†	<0.001 b
Change	−14.6 ± 3.0 ф	−4.0 ± 2.0	+13.8 ± 4.1 #	<0.001 c

Values represent mean ± SEM. ^a Changes between dairy intake groups at baseline analyzed by one-factor ANOVA; ^b comparisons between dairy intake groups and interactions (time × dietary intervention group) analyzed by two-factor repeated-measures ANOVA; ^c comparisons between three dairy intake groups performed with baseline adjusted one-factor ANOVA. * Indicates a significant difference (p < 0.05) relative to the reduced dairy intake group; ^# indicates a significant difference (p ≤ 0.01) relative to both the reduced dairy intake and maintained dairy intake groups; ^ф indicates a significant difference (p < 0.05) between the reduced dairy intake and maintained dairy intake groups; ^† indicates significant difference (p < 0.01) relative to baseline.