Table 4.

Serum concentration of total antioxidant capacity (TAC) and Malondialdehyde (MDA) by quintile of dietary pattern

Dietary pattern	TAC	MDA
Healthy	U/ml	µmol/L
Q1	6.85 (6.37, 7.33)	5.46 (4.13, 6.79)
Q5	9.87 (9.54, 10.24)	3.03 (2.52, 3.54)
P value	0.0001***	0.005**
Unhealthy
Q1	8.90 (7.66, 10.16)	3.49 (1.96, 5.02)
Q5	6.11 (5.63, 6.60)	6.02 (5.35, 6.69)
P value	0.001**	0.013*

Independent sample t-test was used.

^* For the p<0.05,

^** p<0.01 and

^*** P<0.001.