Table 3.
ANOVA of the SS consumed in the different categories defined by the AIS [14], as a function of sex, level of competition their interaction.
| Variable | Model | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | Level of Competition | Sex–Level of Competition (Mean ± SD) | |||||||||||
| F | p | F | p | R | N | I | F | p | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | ||||||||
| Total SS | 1.939 | 0.165 | 4.741 | 0.009 | 6.76 ± 0.34 | 5.47 ± 0.59 | 7.69 ± 0.53 | 7.52 ± 0.96 | 9.60 ± 1.45 | 7.72 ± 1.38 | 0.466 | 0.628 | |
| Group A | Sports Food | 1.850 | 0.175 | 2.978 | 0.052 | 3.56 ± 0.17 | 2.80 ± 0.29 | 3.88 ± 0.27 | 3.96 ± 0.48 | 4.30 ± 0.72 | 3.36 ± 0.69 | 0.925 | 0.398 |
| Medical Supplement | 1.007 | 0.316 | 1.738 | 0.177 | 0.43 ± 0.07 | 0.66 ± 0.11 | 0.49 ± 0.10 | 0.52 ± 0.18 | 0.80 ± 0.28 | 1.00 ± 0.26 | 0.292 | 0.747 | |
| Performance supplement | 1.243 | 0.266 | 9.748 | 0.000 | 0.76 ± 0.06 | 0.38 ± 0.11 | 1.00 ± 0.10 | 0.87 ± 0.18 | 0.80 ± 0.27 | 1.82 ± 0.26 | 6.314 | 0.002 | |
| Total | 0.175 | 0.676 | 5.318 | 0.005 | 4.76 ± 0.23 | 3.84 ± 0.39 | 5.36 ± 0.35 | 5.35 ± 0.63 | 5.90 ± 0.96 | 6.18 ± 0.91 | 0.806 | 0.448 | |
| Group B | 0.082 | 0.775 | 1.070 | 0.344 | 0.48 ± 0.06 | 0.47 ± 0.11 | 0.55 ± 0.10 | 0.74 ± 0.17 | 0.60 ± 0.26 | 0.54 ± 0.25 | 0.381 | 0.684 | |
| Group C | 8.206 | 0.005 | 1.571 | 0.209 | 1.52 ± 0.14 | 1.16 ± 0.24 | 1.74 ± 0.22 | 1.43 ± 0.39 | 3.10 ± 0.59 | 1.00 ± 0.57 | 2.130 | 0.120 | |
| Group D | 0.241 | 0.624 | 0.423 | 0.655 | 0.00 ± 0.01 | 0.00 ± 0.01 | 0.03 ± 0.01 | 0.00 ± 0.02 | 0.00 ± 0.03 | 0.00 ± 0.03 | 0.423 | 0.655 | |
SS: sports supplements; SD: standard deviation; M: male; F: female; R: regional; N: national; I: international.