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Table 1 Characteristics of eligible participants with two days of dietary recall data, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2015–2018*

From: Dietary quality and dietary greenhouse gas emissions in the USA: a comparison of the planetary health diet index, healthy eating index-2015, and dietary approaches to stop hypertension

Sex

 

Male

49.1 (3954)

Female

50.9 (4174)

Mean age (SD), years

48.6 (15.6)

Educational attainment

 

High school equivalent or lower

35.5 (3425)

Some college

32.1 (2575)

College degree or greater

32.4 (2121)

Income

 

Poverty-to-Income Ratio < 185%

28.6 (3212)

Poverty-to-Income Ratio 185–399%

28.3 (2217)

Poverty-to-Income Ratio ≥ 400%

35.0 (1874)

Missing income information

8.1 (825)

Race/ethnicity

 

Non-Hispanic white

64.1 (2949)

Non-Hispanic Black

11.1 (1873)

Hispanic

14.8 (2054)

Asian, Multiracial, and Other Non-Hispanic race/ethnicities

10.0 (1252)

Median (IQR) Planetary Health Diet Index score

68 (59, 77)

Median (IQR) Healthy Eating Index-2015 score

53 (44, 63)

Median (IQR) Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension score

24 (19, 28)

Median (IQR) diet-related greenhouse gas emissions

3.9 (2.6, 5.8)

  1. * Values are weighted % (unweighted N) unless otherwise noted. Weighted % accounts for complex survey weights