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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Public Health Nutr. 2018 Feb 19;21(9):1664–1670. doi: 10.1017/S136898001700430X

Table 4.

Associations (Pearson’s correlation coefficient and P values) between reflection spectroscopy (RS)-assessed skin carotenoids and self-reported fruit and vegetable consumption (daily servings), carotenoids from foods and plasma carotenoids, overall and stratified by African American v. non-African American (Study 2), Eastern North Carolina, USA, February–April 2017

Group  Total fruit and vegetable
consumption (daily servings)
P value  Total carotenoid intake
from food (μg/d)
 P value  Total plasma
carotenoids (μmol/l)
 P value

All (n 30) 0·48  0·009  0·69 <0·0001  0·71 <0·0001
African American (n 17) 0·12  0·635  0·70  0·002  0·54  0·024
White (n 13) 0·84  0·001  0·75  0·003  0·87 <0·0001