Table 7. Serum Carotenoid (mg/ml) and plasma vitamin C (mg/dl) in 4 areas and correlations with carotenoid intakes, vitamin C intakes assessed with either DR¹ and FFQ².

Sex				Spearman correlation
Carotenoids				DR		FFQ
	Mean	SD	Median	crude	energy - adjusted3	crude	energy - adjusted3
Men (n=86)
Total carotene	0.35	0.25	0.27	0.25	0.25	0.30	0.21
Alpha-carotene	0.06	0.03	0.05	0.38	0.38	0.38	0.34
Beta-carotene	0.29	0.23	0.22	0.21	0.20	0.28	0.18
Lycopene	0.09	0.03	0.08	0.28	0.34	0.30	0.26
Vitamin C	1.17	0.27	1.13	-0.01	-0.13	-0.07	-0.20
Women (n=100)4
Total carotene	0.57	0.33	0.50	0.25	0.26	0.12	0.08
Alpha-carotene	0.08	0.04	0.07	0.40	0.43	0.30	0.30
Beta-carotene	0.49	0.31	0.41	0.26	0.25	0.11	0.03
Lycopene	0.10	0.04	0.09	0.34	0.37	0.19	0.10
Vitamin C	1.31	0.31	1.32	0.07	-0.02	0.06	-0.14

¹DR, dietary records.

²FFQ, food frequency questionnaire.

³Energy was adjusted by residual model for intake.

⁴For vitamin C, women (n=99).

For n=86, r>0.22 = p<0.05, r>0.28 = p<0.01, r>0.35 = p<0.001.

For n=100, r>0.20 = p<0.05, r>0.26 = p<0.01, r>0.33 = p<0.001.