Potential impact of restricted caribou (Rangifer tarandus) consumption on anemia prevalence among Inuit adults in northern Canada

Table 2 Average daily consumption of country food¹, by tertile of caribou consumption (average daily intake - g/day) (n = 2175)

	Tertiles of caribou consumption²
	Tertile 1		Tertile 2		Tertile 3
	Mean	(95% CI)	Mean	(95% CI)	Mean	(95% CI)
Caribou
Caribou fresh weight³	5.6	5.1–6.1	72.7^*	69.9–75.6	506.8^*	483.2–530.4
Caribou meat ⁴	4.3	3.9–4.7	51.1^*	48.5–53.8	236.7^*	224.7–248.7
Caribou dry meat	0.5	0.4–0.6	8.0	7.2–8.7	99.9^*	90.8–108.9
Total country food	107.8	97.5–118.0	205.0	194.5–215.5	596.4	576.1–616.7
Other country food meat ⁵	45.9	40.7–51.0	108.3^*	102.9–113.8	416.0^*	401.8–430.1
Fish and other seafood ⁶	41.0	35.8–46.1	62.1^*	56.7–67.5	97.3^*	90.4–104.2
Fat and muktuk	11.2	8.8–13.6	15.6	13.1–18.0	37.2^*	32.6–41.7
Plant and berries	3.1	2.6–3.6	4.5^*	4.0–5.0	6.1^*	5.5–6.7

*Multiple comparisons between tertiles (tertile 1 vs. tertiles 2 and 3, respectively) with Bonferroni correction, adjusting for age, sex and region of residence. P < 0.05
¹Average daily country food consumption (g/person/day) was based on the food frequency questionnaire and averaged across seasons
² Participants were stratified into tertiles based on average (annual average) daily caribou intake g/day
³ Caribou fresh weight calculated based on the sum of caribou meat and caribou dry meat (corrected for moisture content difference)
⁴ Caribou meat - including raw, baked, cooked and aged, preparations
⁵ Aggregated total of meat from all other (non-caribou) country food species, including birds, land mammals (e.g. muskox meat) and marine mammals (e.g. ringed seal meat)
⁶ Does not include marine mammals

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