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Table 2 Characteristics of participants by trajectories of quintile of Chinese Healthy Eating Index over 10 years (1997–2006, n = 6398)

From: Longitudinal trajectories of diet quality and subsequent mortality among Chinese adults: results from the China health and nutrition survey 1997–2015

Variablea Trajectories of quintile of Chinese Healthy Eating Index Pb
Group 1 (Worsening, n = 1469) Group 2 (Low-moderate-low, n = 1649) Group 3 (Improving, n = 1434) Group 4 (High-moderate-high, n = 1846)
Initial age (year) 43.2 ± 12.7 44.4 ± 14.5 42.1 ± 12.8 42.5 ± 12.1 < 0.001
Old adults, ≥65 years (%) 5.7 10.9 5.2 4.6 < 0.001
Male (%) 48.5 49.4 48.0 49.5 0.81
Urban residence (%) 27.7 28.1 26.6 32.1 0.008
Household income (1 k yuan/year)
 Baseline 27.2 ± 37.7 27.2 ± 58.2 29.8 ± 29.6 31.4 ± 29.3 0.001
 Change 8.3 ± 39.7 10.9 ± 58.6 11.2 ± 29.7 11.4 ± 29.3 0.08
Marital status (%)
 Change from married to unmarried 5.4 5.9 4.4 4.3 < 0.001
 Remained unmarried 7.4 9.4 7.2 4.9  
 Change from unmarried to married or remained married 87.3 84.7 88.4 90.8  
Physical activity (%)c
 Remained not enough 45.5 46.6 44.9 40.3 0.008
 Change from enough to not 35.6 35.9 36.5 40.0  
 Change from not to enough or remained enough 18.9 17.5 18.6 19.7  
Smoke status (%)
 Remained current smoker 30.0 29.8 29.6 28.8 0.43
 Change from current smoker to former smoker 10.3 9.3 8.2 8.6  
 Remained not current smoker 59.8 60.9 62.3 62.6  
Proper sleep duration (%)d 75.6 65.5 71.8 76.6 < 0.001
Initial normal body mass index (%) 21.8 19.6 25.5 27.6 < 0.001
Weight change (kg) 0.8 ± 3.6 0.7 ± 2.1 0.6 ± 2.1 0.7 ± 2.1 0.34
History of hypertension (%)
 Never 66.3 69.5 67.6 65.4 0.04
 Incident during the 10-year period 14.5 14.8 16.1 15.6  
 Diagnosed from the beginning 19.2 15.7 16.3 19.1  
History of diabetes (%)
 Never 95.5 95.6 95.1 95.8 0.95
 Incident during the 10-year period 2.5 2.5 2.4 2.3  
 Diagnosed from the beginning 2.0 1.9 2.4 1.9  
  1. aValues are mean ± SD for continuous variables and % for categorical variables
  2. bChi-square test for categorized variables and one-way ANOVA test for continuous variables
  3. cEnough physical activity was defined as meeting the WHO’s recommendation
  4. dProper sleep duration was defined as meeting the US National Sleep Foundation’s recommendation
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