Nutritional status of flexitarians compared to vegans and omnivores - a cross-sectional pilot study

BMC Nutrition

Table 1 Characterisation of the study population

Parameter	FX	P FX-V	V	P V-OMN	OMN	P FX-OMN	P overall
Parameter	\({\varvec{n}}/\widetilde{{\varvec{x}}}({\varvec{I}}{\varvec{Q}}{\varvec{R}})\)	P FX-V	\({\varvec{n}}/\widetilde{{\varvec{x}}}({\varvec{I}}{\varvec{Q}}{\varvec{R}})\)	P V-OMN	\({\varvec{n}}/\widetilde{{\varvec{x}}}({\varvec{I}}{\varvec{Q}}{\varvec{R}})\)	P FX-OMN	P overall
Total Participants (n) (female/male)	32 (18/14)	n.s	33 (18/15)	n.s	29 (13/16)	n.s	0.633^a
Age (years)	32 (26–36)	n.s	33 (29–37)	n.s	32 (28–43)	n.s	0.377^b
BMI (kg/m²)	22.0 (21.0–25.0)	0.375	23.0 (22.0–25.0)	0.223	25.0 (23.0–27.0)	0.003	0.005^b
Duration of diet		≤ 0.001		≤ 0.001		≤ 0.001	≤ 0.001^a
5 years, n	19		22		1
6–10 years, n	6		9		1
11 years, n	7		2		27
Lifestyle factors
Physical activity (h/week)	10.2 (7.70–14.7)	0.958	12.0 (7.50–16.1)	0.007	7.80 (4.00–9.30)	0.106	0.008^c
Supplement-User (n) (%)	10 (32)	≤ 0.001	27 (82)	≤ 0.001	7 (24)	1.000	≤ 0.001^a

P ≤ 0.05 was considered significant
P-values in bold represent statistical significance
IQR Interquartile range, FXs Flexitarians, Vs Vegans, OMNs Omnivores
Differences between groups were analysed using either:
^aChi-Square-Test, ^bKruskal-Wallis test with post hoc test and Bonferroni correction, ^cOne-Way ANOVA

ISSN: 2055-0928