Table 1.

Factor loading matrix of dietary patterns derived from a reduced rank regression from 17,318 participants from the second resurvey of the China Kadoorie Biobank.

Food or Beverage Group	Dietary Pattern-1	Dietary Pattern-2
Rice	0.31	−0.23
Wheat	−0.79	0.24
Other staples	−0.16	0.36
Meat	0.28	0.15
Poultry	0.22	0.38
Fish	0.22	0.43
Eggs	−0.12	−0.01
Fresh vegetables	0.02	0.32
Fresh fruit	0.04	0.34
Preserved vegetables	−0.04	0.08
Soybeans	0.08	0.22
Dairy products	0.17	0.11
Beer	−0.07	0.15
Rice wine	0.04	0.04
Wine	0.01	0.02
Heavy spirits (≥40%)	−0.09	−0.08
Light spirits (<40%)	−0.02	−0.02
Green tea	−0.02	0.19
Oolong tea	0.01	0.19
Black tea	−0.03	−0.01
Other tea	0.07	0.15
% Explained Variance (Correlations)
Food intakes (total)	6.26	6.93
Responses (total)	4.23	1.44
Total cholesterol	10.56 (0.29)	0.47 (0.07)
LDL cholesterol	8.47 (0.27)	1.42 (0.14)
HDL cholesterol	4.04 (0.19)	1.60 (−0.12)
Triglycerides	0.62 (−0.07)	0.14 (0.03)
BMI	0.63 (−0.08)	2.76 (0.17)
Waist circumference	1.07 (−0.10)	2.25 (0.15)

LDL cholesterol: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HDL cholesterol: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; BMI: body mass index; p < 0.001 for all Pearson correlations with dietary patterns and responses.