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. 2022 Mar 23;14(7):1345. doi: 10.3390/nu14071345

Table 1.

Sex and age distribution in athletes (n=264) and non-athletes’ (n=242) groups. Abbreviations: FCB, athletes of Fútbol Club Barcelona; HSS, high-school students; UB-PHIL, philosophy students; STT, sports technical team; UB-HND, Human and Nutrition Dietetics students.

Athletes from FCB Basketball Hockey Soccer Futsal
Number of subjects 65 (24.6%) 18 (6.8%) 166 (62.9%) 15 (5.7%)
Sex Male 65 (100.0%) 18 (100.0%) 136 (81.9%) 15 (100.0%)
Female 30 (18.1%)
Age rank (years) Max–Min 19.6–37.8 15.5–23.8 13–29.9 17.3–36.3
Distribution by age 13–15 39 (60.0%) 5 (27.8%) 36 (21.7%)
16–18 21 (32.3%) 6 (33.3%) 64 (38.6%) 3 (20.0%)
19–21 3 (4.6%) 6 (33.3%) 34 (20.5%) 1 (6.7%)
22–25 1 (5.6%) 17 (10.2%) 2 (13.3%)
>25 2 (3.1%) 15 (9.0%) 9 (60.0%)
Non Athletes STT UB-HND UB-PHIL HSS
Number of subjects 59 (24.4%) 51 (21.1%) 39 (16.1%) 93 (38.4%)
Sex Male 42 (71.2%) 15 (29.4%) 27 (69.2%) 42 (45.2%)
Female 17 (28.8%) 36 (70.6%) 12 (30.8%) 51 (54.8%)
Age rank (years) Max–Min 25–55 21.8–36.1 18.7–39.6 13.8–17
Distribution by age 13–15 88 (94.6%)
16–18 1 (2.6%) 5 (5.4%)
19–21 2 (3.9%) 7 (17.9%)
22–25 34 (66.7%) 11 (28.2%)
>25 59 (100%) 15 (29.4%) 20 (51.3%)