Table 1 Participant Characteristics by Recalled Childhood Meat Eating in 9,867 Older Chinese Men (2,498) and Women (7,369) in Phase 3 Of The Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study (2006-8).
From: Childhood meat eating and inflammatory markers: The Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study
Men | Women | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recalled childhood meat eating | Recalled childhood meat eating | ||||||
<1/week (n = 1337) | About once a week (n = 878) | Almost daily (n = 283) | <1/week (n = 3686) | About once a week (n = 2714) | Almost daily (n = 969) | ||
Age (yrs): mean (standard deviation (SD)) | 64.3 (7.6) | 61.6 (7.3) | 62.5 (7.9) | 60.7 (7.9) | 57.5 (6.8) | 57.9 (7.4) | |
Height (cm): mean (SD) | 163.9 (6.0) | 164.8 (5.9) | 165.2 (6.3) | 153.4 (5.5) | 154.5 (5.4) | 154.5 (5.4) | |
Body mass index: mean (SD) | 23.4 (3.2) | 23.5 (3.0) | 23.9 (3.3) | 24.1 (3.5) | 23.7 (3.3) | 24.0 (3.2) | |
Waist-hip ratio: mean (SD) | 0.90 (0.07) | 0.90 (0.06) | 0.91 (0.07) | 0.86 (0.07) | 0.84 (0.07) | 0.85 (0.06) | |
Childhood socio-economic position (parental possessions) # | Low | 81.2 | 53.0 | 35.0 | 73.6 | 41.2 | 23.3 |
Medium | 10.0 | 21.6 | 16.6 | 13.9 | 23.6 | 20.6 | |
High | 7.1 | 23.6 | 46.6 | 9.9 | 32.3 | 53.2 | |
Unknown | 1.7 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 2.9 | |
Highest educational attainment | < primary | 4.0 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 17.9 | 4.1 | 3.5 |
Primary | 32.3 | 20.3 | 17.3 | 38.6 | 22.8 | 18.6 | |
Junior middle | 32.0 | 33.0 | 24.7 | 23.0 | 30.3 | 29.0 | |
Senior middle | 20.4 | 29.1 | 33.2 | 17.0 | 34.6 | 38.5 | |
Junior college | 7.0 | 11.2 | 12.0 | 2.7 | 6.8 | 8.0 | |
College | 4.4 | 5.9 | 12.0 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 2.6 | |
Smoking status | Never | 34.0 | 41.5 | 38.5 | 96.1 | 97.4 | 96.7 |
Ex-smoker | 29.1 | 22.3 | 26.5 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 1.0 | |
Current | 35.9 | 33.9 | 34.3 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 0.9 | |
Unknown | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.3 | |