Table 6 Background data among food intake patterns during 2008–2016 for men in the Northern Sweden Diet Database (n = 26 126)
Cluster 1 | Cluster 2 | Cluster 3 | Cluster 4 | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
High-fat spread and high-fat dairy (n = 14 905) | Fast food, bacon/sausage and fried potato (n = 5 629) | Fruit, vegetables and oil (n = 2 804) | Sandwiches (n = 2 788) | ||
Age (yrs) | 50.9 (8.2) | 46.9 (7.4) | 51.9 (7.9) | 51.6 (8.0) | < 0.001 |
Body weight (kg) | 87.0 (14.0) | 88.6 (15.0) | 86.8 (14.2) | 88.1 (15.1) | < 0.001 |
Body mass index (kg/m2) | 27.0 (4.0) | 27.6 (4.2) | 27.1 (4.0) | 27.5 (4.4) | < 0.001 |
Marital statusa (%) | < 0.001 | ||||
Married/cohabitating | 79.5 | 75.5 | 81.9 | 75.9 | |
Unmarried/other | 20.5 | 24.5 | 18.1 | 24.1 | |
Education (%) | < 0.001 | ||||
Secondary school or less | 71.1 | 71.1 | 52.9 | 74.6 | |
Academic education | 28.9 | 28.9 | 47.1 | 25.4 | |
Physical activity indexb (%) | < 0.001 | ||||
Inactive | 14.2 | 18.6 | 14.1 | 15.4 | |
Moderately inactive | 24.3 | 25.1 | 21.2 | 25.9 | |
Moderately active | 30.1 | 30.8 | 27.3 | 30.2 | |
Active | 31.4 | 25.5 | 37.3 | 28.5 | |
Smoking (%) | < 0.001 | ||||
Smoker | 12.4 | 16.3 | 9.5 | 13.1 | |
Former smoker | 28.6 | 25.1 | 33.7 | 30.6 | |
Never smoker | 59.1 | 58.7 | 56.9 | 56.3 |