|Table 1: Demographic characteristics across the quartiles of fast food consumption.|
|Variables||Quartiles of fast food intake|
|Q1 ||Q2 ||Q3 ||Q4 |
|[<51.8 g/week] ||[51.9–100.7 g/week] ||[100.8–214.9 g/week] ||[>215 g/week] |
|Physical Activity (METh/day)||0.303|
|85th < BMI3 < 95th (%)||0||17.6||16.7||40.0||0.0001|
|BMI > 95th (%)||2.9||0||5.6||11.4||0.0001|
|WC3 > 75th (%)||22.9||38.2||44.4||54.3||0.055|
|1Values are mean ± SD unless indicated.|
2P values resulted from analysis of variance for quantitative variables and χ 2 for qualitative variables.
3BMI: body mass index; WC: waist circumference.