Table 3.
Differences in dietary patterns between women and men during the four-day run-in period.
| Women N = 82 (n, %) |
Men N = 23 (n, %) |
p-Value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dietary habits | 1.00 | ||
| Regular habits | 40 (48.8) | 10 (43.5) | |
| Irregular habits | 41 (50.0) | 11 (47.8) | |
| Missing value | 1 (1.2) | 2 (8.7) | |
| Diet regimes | 0.041 | ||
| On a current diet | 59 (72.0) | 10 (43.5) | |
| Not on a current diet | 23 (28.0) | 11 (47.8) | |
| Missing value | 1 (1.2) | 2 (8.7) | |
| Pizza/burger intake | 0.049 | ||
| Intake | 33 (40.4) | 14 (91.3) | |
| No intake | 48 (58.5) | 7 (30.4) | |
| Missing value | 1 (1.2) | 2 (8.7) | |
| Soda intake | 0.608 | ||
| Sugar-rich | 14 (17.1) | 4 (17.4) | |
| Sugar-free | 10 (12.2) | 4 (17.4) | |
| No soda drinking | 57 (69.5) | 13 (56.5) | |
| Missing value | 1 (1.2) | 2 (8.7) |
Number (n) and percentage (%) of different dietary patterns. Values from one woman and two men were missing. Regular habits were defined as 3–6 meals/day, ingested at regular time points. Fisher’s exact test. p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.