Milk Fat Intake and Telomere Length in U.S. Women and Men: The Role of the Milk Fat Fraction
Table 1
Descriptive characteristics of the sample ().
Variable
Weighted %
SE
Gender
Men
2762
47.4
0.5
Women
3072
52.6
0.5
Race
Non-Hispanic White
2881
72.5
2.1
Non-Hispanic Black
1066
10.1
1.3
Mexican American
1446
7.5
0.9
Other Race
148
3.4
0.6
Other Hispanic
293
6.5
1.6
Household size
1
716
11.6
0.6
2
1781
32.0
1.3
3
1065
19.3
1.0
4
949
19.1
1.2
5
616
9.6
0.7
6
273
3.5
0.6
7 or more
434
5.0
0.6
Body mass index
Underweight
85
1.8
0.2
Normal weight
1598
30.2
0.8
Overweight
2059
33.9
1.2
Obese
1910
31.4
1.1
Missing
182
2.8
0.3
Alcohol use
Abstainer
2364
36.0
2.6
Moderate drinker
1736
31.4
1.8
Heavy drinker
1734
32.6
1.1
Milk intake frequency
Never
814
13.3
0.7
Rarely
761
13.2
0.7
Sometimes
1451
25.0
0.7
Often
2808
48.5
1.1
Milk fat consumed
Milk abstainers
814
13.3
0.7
Full-fat
2094
29.8
1.4
2% milk
1650
29.9
1.3
1% milk
505
10.0
1.1
Nonfat milk
771
17.0
1.2
For the milk intake frequency variable, adults reporting “Never” did not consume milk; “Rarely,” consumed milk < once per week; “Sometimes,” consumed milk > once per week, but < once per day; and “Often,” consumed milk at least once per day. SE is standard error of the weighted percentage.
