Association between Dietary Patterns and Precocious Puberty in Children: A Population-Based Study

Table 1

Characteristics of the study population.

Variables	Boys (N) (%)	Girls (N) (%)	value
Precocious puberty	127 (3.01%)	469 (23.07%)	<0.001
Socioeconomic factor
Father’s education level			0.001
Low	1251 (30.51%)	519 (26.13%)
Middle	1185 (41.59%)	588 (29.61%)
High	1664 (58.41%)	879 (44.26%)
Mother’s education level			0.010
Low	1426 (35.14%)	611 (31.22%)
Middle	1068 (26.32%)	538 (27.49%)
High	1564 (38.54%)	808 (41.29%)
Total family income			0.587
Low	806 (28.11%)	382 (26.75%)
Middle	1340 (46.74%)	672 (47.06%)
High	721 (25.15%)	374 (26.19%)
District			0.461
Suburban	3491 (82.71%)	1666 (81.95%)
Urban	730 (17.29%)	367 (18.05%)

Notes. value for chi-square test.