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Table 2 Dietary intakes of POS components according to tertiles of dietary pro-oxidants status

From: Dietary pro-oxidant score (POS) and cardio-metabolic panel among obese individuals: a cross-sectional study

Variable

Tertiles of POS

1st

(N=113)

2nd

(N=113)

3rd

(N=112)

P*

value

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Iron (mg/d)

32.51

13.07

22.29

5.31

16.52

4.10

< 0.001

SFA (g/d)

43.10

16.52

27.61

6.58

17.31

4.24

< 0.001

PUFA (g/d)

34.92

15.15

20.14

5.49

12.69

3.37

< 0.001

  1. POS, pro-oxidants status, SFA, saturated fatty acids, PUFA, polyunsaturated fatty acids. P-values are derived from one-way ANOVA test
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