Fast Food Consumption, Quality of Diet, and Obesity among Isfahanian Adolescent Girls
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]
Age (y)
0.677
Height (cm)
0.157
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.