Table 1 General characteristic of participants across tertiles of DASH score1
From: Adherence to “dietary approaches to stop hypertension” eating plan in relation to gastric cancer
Characteristics | Groups | Tertile of DASH score | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cases (n = 178) | Controls (n = 276) | P2 | 1 (n = 176) | 2 (n = 158) | 3 (n = 120) | P3 | |
Age (years) | 60.8 ± 12.0 | 53.2 ± 11.9 | < 0.001 | 54.5 ± 12.9 | 57.6 ± 12.7 | 56.6 ± 11.4 | 0.07 |
Alcohol intake (g/day) | 6.8 ± 86.4 | 1.7 ± 11.7 | 0.3 | 1.4 ± 9.9 | 8.4 ± 92.4 | 1.11 ± 9.6 | 0.44 |
BMI (kg/m2) | 27.8 + 16.4 | 26.0 + 8.2 | 0.12 | 27.6 ± 14.2 | 26.4 ± 13.3 | 25.8 ± 4.6 | 0.44 |
Gender (Male, %) | 132(74.2) | 176(63.8) | 0.02 | 108(65.9) | 122(71.4) | 78(65.6) | 0.46 |
Marital status (Married, %) | 174(97.8) | 237(85.9) | < 0.001 | 156(95.1) | 157(91.8) | 100(84.0) | 0.01 |
Education (illiterate, %) | 111(62.4) | 72(26.1) | < 0.001 | 69(42.1) | 68(39.8) | 46(38.7) | 0.53 |
Residential (Tehran, %) | 93(52.3) | 140(50.8) | < 0.001 | 86(52.4) | 92(53.8) | 55(46.1) | 0.42 |
Smoking (yes %) | 81(45.5) | 85(30.8) | 0.001 | 62(37.8) | 66(38.6) | 38(31.9) | 0.47 |
H.pylori (positive, %) | 68(38.2) | 155(56.2) | < 0.001 | 82(50.0) | 83(48.5) | 58(48.7) | 0.96 |