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Table 5.

Mean Body Max Index and waist circumference of adults 20 years over, grouped by dietary patterns, NHANES ¹ 2013–2016.

Variables	Vegetarian-Style Dietary Pattern	Nonvegetarian Dietary Pattern
Males
Body Mass Index (kg/m²)	28.0 (0.7) ^a	29.0 (0.2) ^a
Waist circumference (cm)	100.3 (1.7) ^a	102.2 (0.4) ^a
Percent overweight	70.5 (3.5) ^a	73.9 (1.0) ^a
Females
Body Mass Index (kg/m²)	28.3 (0.5) ^a	29.7 (0.2) ^a
Waist circumference (cm)	95.5 (1.2) ^a	98.1 (0.5) ^a
Percent overweight	64.2 (2.8) ^a	68.7 (1.2) ^a

¹ National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. ^a Means with different superscripts are significantly different from each other at p < 0.01. ( ) standard error.