Table 3 Background data among food intake patterns during 2000–2007 for women in the Northern Sweden Diet Database (n = 24 360)
Cluster 1 | Cluster 2 | Cluster 3 | Cluster 4 | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
High-fat dairy, white bread, sugar/jam and cookies (n = 9 670) | Fruit, high-fiber bread and low-fat milk (n = 8 579) | Bacon/sausage and fast food (n = 5 726) | Pulses and tea (n = 385) | ||
Age (yrs) | 50.4 (8.0) | 52.7 (7.5) | 45.8 (7.1) | 50.0 (8.0) | < 0.001 |
Body weight (kg) | 69.7 (13.1) | 71.4 (12.9) | 70.3 (13.2) | 69.4 (13.4) | < 0.001 |
Body mass indexa (kg/m2)a | 25.5 (4.7) | 26.3 (4.5) | 25.7 (4.6) | 25.2 (4.7) | < 0.001 |
Marital statusa (%) | < 0.001 | ||||
Married/cohabitating | 81.5 | 81.2 | 82.4 | 71.7 | |
Unmarried/other | 18.5 | 18.8 | 17.6 | 28.3 | |
Education (%) | < 0.001 | ||||
Secondary school or less | 71.0 | 61.4 | 63.2 | 45.2 | |
Academic education | 29.0 | 38.6 | 36.8 | 54.8 | |
Physical activity indexb (%) | < 0.001 | ||||
Inactive | 14.5 | 13.0 | 18.2 | 12.9 | |
Moderately inactive | 32.1 | 29.0 | 31.3 | 27.4 | |
Moderately active | 29.4 | 26.5 | 26.6 | 23.1 | |
Active | 24.0 | 31.5 | 23.9 | 36.6 | |
Smoking (%) | < 0.001 | ||||
Smoker | 21.4 | 15.1 | 22.0 | 12.5 | |
Former smoker | 28.1 | 37.2 | 32.6 | 37.7 | |
Never smoker | 50.5 | 47.7 | 45.4 | 49.9 |