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

Table 3

Factor loading matrix for dietary patterns by exploratory factor analysis.

Variable	Traditional diet pattern	Unhealthy diet pattern	Protein diet pattern
Vegetable	0.631	−0.249	−0.06
Fruit	0.675	−0.113	0.033
Red meat	0.637	0.204	−0.138
White meat	0.585	0.366	0.086
Aquatic and sea food	0.634	0.149	0.109
Dessert/snacks	0.102	0.713	−0.007
Fried food	0.010	0.664	−0.005
Neogala	0.024	0.078	0.751
Protein powder	−0.080	0.052	0.747
Dairy product	0.307	−0.049	0.316
Soft drinks	−0.034	0.758	0.126
Eigenvalue	2.117	1.807	1.280
Percentage of variability	19.244	16.424	11.640

Notes. Absolute factor loading values > 0.30 were labeled in bold.