Gender differences in the relationship between dietary energy and macronutrients intake and body weight outcomes in Chinese adults

Table 3 Dietary energy and macronutrient intake among different BMI categories by gender in 2015^a,b

Dietary intake	The underweight BMI category		The normal BMI category		The overweight BMI category		The obesity BMI category
Dietary intake	Women (N = 291)	Men (N = 183)	Women (N = 2931)	Men (N = 2220)	Women (N = 1933)	Men (N = 1820)	Women (N = 809)	Men (N = 711)
Energy (k cal)	1887.7 ± 40.0	2296.8 ± 65.7^***	1908.0 ± 12.7	2234.7 ± 16.8^***	1948.2 ± 16.1	2290.3 ± 18.4^***	1903.2 ± 23.1	2348.2 ± 30.2^***
Fat (g)	76.8 ± 2.7	92.4 ± 4.1^***	77.0 ± 0.8	90.0 ± 1.1^***	79.0 ± 1.0	92.4 ± 1.1^***	77.4 ± 1.6	93.6 ± 1.8^***
Protein (g)	60.6 ± 1.4	71.4 ± 2.1^***	62.1 ± 0.5	72.2 ± 0.6^***	62.9 ± 0.6	75.5 ± 0.7^***	60.7 ± 0.8	76.6 ± 1.1^***
Carbohydrate (g)	237.9 ± 6.0	290.0 ± 10.3^***	240.5 ± 1.9	277.7 ± 2.6^***	245.0 ± 2.5	282.6 ± 2.9^***	240.1 ± 3.4	294.1 ± 4.7^***
Fat (% E³)	35.9 ± 0.7	36.1 ± 1.0	35.8 ± 0.2	35.9 ± 0.3	36.1 ± 0.3	36.1 ± 0.3	35.9 ± 0.4	35.6 ± 0.4
Protein (% E⁴)	13.0 ± 0.2	12.8 ± 0.2	13.3 ± 0.1	13.2 ± 0.1	13.1 ± 0.1	13.4 ± 0.1^**	13.2 ± 0.1	13.0 ± 0.1
Carbohydrate (% E⁵)	50.9 ± 0.7	50.4 ± 1.0	50.7 ± 0.2	49.9 ± 0.3 ^**	50.6 ± 0.3	49.5 ± 0.3^**	51.0 ± 0.4	50.3 ± 0.5

^aValues are mean (s.e.) for continuous variables and n (%) for categorical variable.^b ***, ** and * indicate statistical significance at the 1, 5 and 10% level, respectively. % E^3,4,5 means the percentage of energy intake from fat, protein and carbohydrate, respectively

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