Table 3.
General characteristics of the study participants cross categories of dietary patterns scores.
| Variablesa | Alcohol and fish | p b | Traditional | p b | Coarse cereals | p b | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1 (191) | T2 (190) | T3 (193) | T1 (191) | T2 (190) | T3 (193) | T1 (191) | T2 (190) | T3 (193) | ||||
| Gender, males | 39.8 | 48.4 | 77.0 | <0.001 | 34.7 | 51.0 | 80.2 | <0.001 | 57.1 | 46.8 | 62.2 | 0.009 |
| Age group | 0.372 | 0.011 | 0.001 | |||||||||
| 18–44 | 30.9 | 35.8 | 40.9 | 27.4 | 37.5 | 42.7 | 29.3 | 32.1 | 46.1 | |||
| 45–54 | 37.2 | 34.7 | 31.1 | 34.7 | 35.4 | 32.8 | 39.3 | 40.5 | 23.3 | |||
| ≥55 | 31.9 | 29.5 | 28.0 | 37.9 | 27.1 | 24.5 | 31.4 | 27.4 | 30.6 | |||
| BMI | 23.5 ± 3.7 | 23.5 ± 3.5 | 24.2 ± 3.5 | 0.056 | 23.9 ± 3.7 | 23.1 ± 3.3 | 24.2 ± 3.6 | 0.012 | 23.8 ± 3.5 | 23.4 ± 3.5 | 24.0 ± 3.7 | 0.328 |
| Residence | <0.001 | 0.596 | 0.033 | |||||||||
| Urban | 20.9 | 23.7 | 40.4 | 31.1 | 26.6 | 27.6 | 24.1 | 25.8 | 35.2 | |||
| Rural | 79.1 | 76.3 | 59.6 | 68.9 | 73.4 | 72.4 | 75.9 | 74.2 | 64.8 | |||
| Year of education | <0.001 | 0.03 | <0.001 | |||||||||
| <6 | 29.8 | 23.7 | 16.6 | 30.5 | 22.9 | 16.7 | 31.4 | 21.6 | 17.1 | |||
| 6–12 | 59.2 | 61.1 | 55.4 | 51.6 | 59.4 | 64.6 | 56.5 | 64.7 | 54.4 | |||
| >12 | 11.0 | 15.3 | 28.0 | 17.9 | 17.7 | 18.8 | 12.0 | 13.7 | 28.5 | |||
| Marital status | 0.783 | 0.931 | 0.144 | |||||||||
| Single/Divorced/Widowed | 3.1 | 2.1 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 4.7 | |||
| Married | 96.9 | 97.9 | 96.9 | 96.8 | 97.4 | 97.4 | 98.4 | 97.9 | 95.3 | |||
| Occupation | <0.001 | 0.718 | 0.001 | |||||||||
| Authority unit | 11.5 | 10.5 | 25.4 | 15.3 | 14.6 | 17.7 | 9.4 | 14.2 | 23.8 | |||
| Company employee | 1.6 | 6.8 | 7.3 | 4.7 | 5.2 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 4.1 | |||
| Worker | 14.1 | 17.4 | 13.0 | 15.3 | 15.6 | 13.5 | 15.2 | 12.6 | 16.6 | |||
| Self-employer | 11.0 | 22.1 | 20.2 | 14.2 | 17.2 | 21.9 | 16.8 | 17.4 | 19.2 | |||
| Student | 3.7 | 1.1 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 3.2 | 2.6 | |||
| Farmer | 53.4 | 39.5 | 29.5 | 43.7 | 41.7 | 37.0 | 50.8 | 42.6 | 29.0 | |||
| Retried | 4.7 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 4.7 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 1.6 | 4.2 | 4.7 | |||
| Income, CNY/month/per-individual | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.001 | |||||||||
| <1000 | 31.9 | 21.6 | 11.4 | 34.2 | 20.3 | 10.4 | 26.2 | 19.5 | 19.2 | |||
| 1001–3000 | 36.1 | 37.9 | 27.5 | 27.4 | 39.1 | 34.9 | 37.7 | 40.0 | 23.8 | |||
| >3000 | 31.9 | 40.5 | 61.1 | 38.4 | 40.6 | 54.7 | 36.1 | 40.5 | 57.0 | |||
| Smoking, yes | 38.7 | 36.8 | 59.1 | <0.001 | 36.3 | 43.8 | 54.7 | 0.001 | 41.9 | 41.1 | 51.8 | 0.062 |
| Drinking, yes | 6.8 | 13.7 | 57.0 | <0.001 | 11.6 | 21.9 | 44.3 | <0.001 | 27.2 | 20.5 | 30.1 | 0.093 |
| H. pylori infection, yes | 30.9 | 23.9 | 31.4 | 0.201 | 27.1 | 25.1 | 34.0 | 0.131 | 24.2 | 27.1 | 34.9 | 0.058 |
| History of diabetes, yes | 6.8 | 7.4 | 2.6 | 0.083 | 7.9 | 6.3 | 2.6 | 0.07 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 6.7 | 0.674 |
| History of hypertension, yes | 7.9 | 13.7 | 15.5 | 0.058 | 16.8 | 9.9 | 10.4 | 0.072 | 11.0 | 11.1 | 15.0 | 0.388 |
| History of taking anticoagulants, yes | 3.7 | 4.2 | 8.3 | 0.09 | 5.3 | 4.7 | 6.3 | 0.791 | 7.3 | 4.2 | 4.7 | 0.346 |
Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; CNY, Chinese yuan.
aValues presented as percentage for categorical variables and mean ± SD for continuous variables.
bChi-square test for categorical variables and the ANOVA analyses for continuous variables.