Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of the study participants aged ≥ 60 years, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2011–2014 (Numbers and percentages; mean values with their standard error of the mean, n 2840)*
| Mushroom intake | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowest (n 2737) | Middle (n 51) | Highest (n 52) | ||||
| Characteristic | n | % | n | % | n | % |
| g/4184 KJ (1000 kcal)/d | ||||||
| Median | 0 | 2·4 | 13·4 | |||
| Range | 5·1 | 92·4 | ||||
| Age groups | ||||||
| 60–69 | 1464 | 56·5 | 26 | 41·6 | 24 | 48·5 |
| 70–79 | 816 | 28·8 | 19 | 40·8 | 14 | 31·6 |
| 80 and older | 457 | 14·7 | 6 | 17·6 | 14 | 19·8 |
| Women | 1405 | 53·0 | 27 | 60·4 | 29 | 63·2 |
| Non-Hispanic white | 1297 | 76·7 | 33 | 89·4 | 33 | 86·1 |
| Education above high school | 1372 | 61·3 | 29 | 54·9 | 36 | 73·2 |
| Family PIR ≤ 1·30 | 849 | 19·3 | 13 | 19·8 | 10 | 12·5 |
| Current smoker | 343 | 10·1 | 10 | 13·2 | 1 | 7·1 |
| PA (≥ 1200 MET-min/week) | 1463 | 56·6 | 29 | 54·6 | 35 | 73·6 |
| History of CVD | 618 | 21·8 | 10 | 21·0 | 11 | 22·2 |
| History of diabetes | 783 | 23·2 | 10 | 10·9 | 11 | 14·4 |
| Alcohol intake g/d | ||||||
| Mean | 7·1 | 12·8 | 5·8 | |||
| se | 0·6 | 3·7 | 1·3 | |||
| Total energy KJ (kcal)/d | ||||||
| Mean | 7929 (1895) | 8259 (1974) | 7046 (1684) | |||
| se | 84 (20) | 339 (81) | 272 (65) | |||
| HEI-2015 score | ||||||
| Mean | 57·9 | 58·7 | 56·8 | |||
| se | 0.6 | 2.9 | 3.0 | |||
PA, physical activity; PIR, poverty income ratio; HEI, Healthy Eating Index.
*
All Ns are unweighted and all proportions and means (se) are survey-weighted for complex survey design.