Division of Epidemiology and Health Index, Korea National Institute of Health, Osong, Korea.
Copyright ©2012, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Food or food group | Food items included |
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Rice and rice cake | Cooked well-milled rice, cooked rice with barley, cooked rice with other cereals, parched cereal powder, rice cakes (plain rod shape), other rice cakes |
Noodles | Ramen, noodles with soup, chajangmyon, buckwheat vermicelli/buckwheat noodle, dumpling |
Bread | Loaf bread, bread with small red beans, other breads, pizza/fast food, cereals |
Sugar and fat | Cakes, snacks, candy/chocolate, butter/margarine, coffee, sugar, coffee cream |
Potatoes | Potatoes, sweet potatoes, starch vermicelli, starch jelly |
Legumes and nuts | Soybean, tofu, stew with soybean pastes, soybean milk, nuts |
Kimchi | Kimchi, Korean cabbage, kakduki/small radish kimchi, kimchi with liquid, other kimchi (green onion/kodulbbagi/mustard leaves) |
Vegetables | Green pepper, red pepper leaves, spinach, lettuce, perilla leaf, leek/water dropwort, green-yellow vegetables, radish/salted radish |
Doraji/deoduck (kinds of white root), onion, cabbages, cucumber, bean sprouts, carrot, pumpkin gruel/pumpkin juice, young pumpkin, vegetable juice, bracken/sweet potato stalk, pickles | |
Mushrooms | Oyster mushroom, other mushrooms |
Fruits | Persimmon, dried persimmon, tangerine, muskmelon/melon, banana, pear, apple/apple juice, orange/orange juice, watermelon, peach/plum, strawberry, grape/grape juice, tomato/tomato juice |
Meat | Dog meat, chicken/chicken leg/chicken wing, pan-roast pork, pork belly, braised pork, ham/sausage, pan-roast beef ribs, thick beef soup/hard-boiled beef ribs, edible viscera |
Eggs | Eggs |
Fish and seafood | Sushi, hair tail, eel, yellow croaker, Alaska pollack, mackerel/Pacific saury/Spanish mackerel, dried anchovy, cuttlefish/octopus, tuna, canned, fish paste/crab flavored, crab, clam (small ark shell/little neck clam/clam meat), oyster, shrimp, salt-fermented fish |
Seaweeds | Laver, kelp/sea mustard |
Milk | Milk |
Dairy products | Yoghurt, ice cream, cheese |
Coffee and carbonated drink | Coffee, carbonated drinks |
Green tea and other drinks | Green tea, sikhae, citron tea |
Factor 1 | Factor 2 | Factor 3 | |
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Traditional | Dairy | Western | |
Rice and rice cake | 0.21 | –0.47 | — |
Noodles | — | — | 0.56 |
Bread | — | 0.26 | 0.61 |
Sugar and fat | — | — | 0.60 |
Potatoes | 0.42 | — | 0.29 |
Legumes and nuts | 0.47 | — | — |
Kimchi | 0.52 | –0.30 | — |
Vegetables | 0.71 | — | — |
Mushrooms | 0.32 | 0.43 | — |
Fruits | 0.51 | — | — |
Meat | 0.43 | — | 0.35 |
Eggs | 0.40 | — | 0.29 |
Fish and seafood | 0.56 | 0.32 | 0.30 |
Seaweeds | 0.55 | 0.34 | — |
Milk | — | 0.55 | — |
Dairy products | — | 0.50 | |
Coffee and carbonated beverages | — | — | 0.39 |
Green tea and other drinks | 0.22 | 0.53 | — |
Percentage of variance (%) | 19.3 | 8.0 | 6.6 |
Traditional | Dairy | Western | |||||||
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Q1 | Q5 | p | Q1 | Q5 | p | Q1 | Q5 | p | |
Mean age (SD), y | 59.4 (6.8) | 58.2 (6.6) | 0.0247 | 60.3 (6.0) | 56.7 (6.8) | <0.0001 | 60.0 (6.4) | 56.9 (6.7) | <0.0001 |
Mean age of menarche (SD), y | 16.4 (1.7) | 16.4 (1.9) | 0.9540 | 16.5 (1.7) | 16.1 (1.7) | 0.0025 | 16.2 (1.9) | 16.3 (2.0) | 0.8215 |
Mean age of menopause (SD), y | 48.7 (4.4) | 49.0 (3.9) | 0.4226 | 48.8 (4.2) | 48.7 (4.1) | 0.7269 | 48.8 (4.2) | 48.6 (4.1) | 0.7195 |
Area, n (%) | 0.8237 | <0.0001 | 0.0001 | ||||||
Rural | 228 (49.7) | 231 (50.3) | 277 (66.3) | 141 (33.7) | 238 (54.7) | 197 (45.3) | |||
Urban | 64 (50.8) | 62 (49.2) | 15 (9.0) | 152 (91.0) | 55 (36.7) | 95 (63.3) | |||
Marital status, n (%) | 0.0450 | 0.0909 | 0.1184 | ||||||
Married | 226 (48.0) | 245 (52.0) | 224 (48.1) | 242 (51.9) | 230 (48.5) | 244 (51.5) | |||
Others (single, widowed) | 65 (58.6) | 46 (41.4) | 67 (56.8) | 51 (43.2) | 63 (56.8) | 48 (43.2) | |||
Education, n (%) | 0.0137 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | ||||||
Elementary school degree | 205 (53.3) | 180 (46.7) | 231 (65.4) | 122 (34.6) | 207 (58.6) | 146 (41.4) | |||
Middle or high school degree | 76 (43.4) | 99 (56.6) | 56 (27.9) | 145 (72.1) | 77 (37.8) | 127 (62.3) | |||
College degree or above | 4 (25.0) | 12 (75.0) | 2 (7.4) | 25 (92.6) | 7 (31.8) | 15 (68.2) | |||
Income, n (%) | 0.0303 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | ||||||
<$1000 | 188 (54.8) | 155 (45.2) | 210 (64.6) | 115 (35.4) | 202 (59.9) | 135 (40.1) | |||
$1000–2000 | 62 (45.6) | 74 (54.4) | 52 (37.7) | 86 (62.3) | 50 (37.9) | 82 (62.1) | |||
$2000–3000 | 26 (47.3) | 29 (52.7) | 14 (22.6) | 48 (77.4) | 14 (28.6) | 35 (71.4) | |||
>$3000 | 12 (32.4) | 25 (67.6) | 8 (18.2) | 36 (81.8) | 17 (33.3) | 34 (66.7) | |||
Exercise, n (%) | 0.0124 | <0.0001 | 0.2289 | ||||||
No | 242 (52.6) | 218 (47.4) | 259 (59.3) | 178 (40.7) | 232 (51.4) | 219 (48.6) | |||
Yes | 50 (40.0) | 75 (60.0) | 33 (22.3) | 115 (77.7) | 61 (45.5) | 73 (54.5) | |||
Passive smoking, n (%) | 0.0798 | 0.0002 | 0.6932 | ||||||
No | 177 (54.5) | 148 (45.5) | 143 (42.6) | 193 (57.4) | 170 (50.3) | 168 (49.7) | |||
Yes | 103 (46.8) | 117 (53.2) | 124 (59.1) | 86 (41.0) | 101 (48.6) | 107 (51.4) | |||
Height, mean (SD), cm | 151.5 (5.2) | 152.7 (5.4) | 0.0047 | 151.5 (5.2) | 154.3 (5.1) | <0.0001 | 152.3 (5.8) | 152.7 (5.3) | 0.4299 |
Weight, mean (SD), kg | 56.4 (8.3) | 58.4 (8.2) | 0.0026 | 57.9 (8.4) | 59.3 (8.8) | 0.0335 | 58.1 (8.6) | 58.1 (8.1) | 0.9468 |
BMI, mean (SD), m2/kg | 24.5 (3.3) | 25.0 (3.0) | 0.0710 | 25.2 (3.2) | 24.9 (3.1) | 0.3456 | 25.0 (3.2) | 24.9 (3.0) | 0.5759 |
Radius SOS, mean (SD), m/s | 4,143.5 (180.0) | 4,138.8 (183.8) | 0.7532 | 4,092.1 (177.5) | 4,169.2 (180.1) | <0.0001 | 4,135.2 (187.1) | 4,141.8 (175.4) | 0.6609 |
Tibia SOS, mean (SD), m/s | 3,780.8 (168.7) | 3,805.2 (158.9) | 0.0722 | 3,770.2 (155.0) | 3,848.3 (156.5) | <0.0001 | 3,796.9 (160.0) | 3,813.5 (162.2) | 0.2134 |
Prevalence at radius, n (%) | 0.5767 | 0.0305 | 0.3196 | ||||||
Normal | 267 (50.3) | 264 (49.7) | 253 (48.4) | 270 (51.6) | 263 (49.4) | 269 (50.6) | |||
Osteoporosis | 25 (46.3) | 29 (53.7) | 39 (62.9) | 23 (37.1) | 30 (56.6) | 23 (43.4) | |||
Prevalence at tibia, n (%) | 0.0958 | 0.0002 | 0.0855 | ||||||
Normal | 198 (47.7) | 217 (52.3) | 193 (45.2) | 234 (54.8) | 201 (47.9) | 219 (52.1) | |||
Osteoporosis | 94 (55.3) | 76 (44.7) | 99 (62.7) | 59 (37.3) | 92 (55.8) | 73 (44.2) |
Q1 | Q3 | Q5 | |||||
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Case n (%) | Case n (%) | RR (95% CI) | Case n (%) | RR (95% CI) | p for trend | ||
Traditional | |||||||
Radius | 56 (21.0) | Ref | 71 (26.8) | 1.37 (0.95–1.99) | 69 (26.1) | 1.46 (1.00–2.13)c | 0.0674 |
Tibia | 67 (33.8) | Ref | 75 (34.9) | 1.32 (0.81–2.16) | 91 (41.9) | 1.82 (1.12–2.96)c | 0.0095 |
Dairy | |||||||
Radius | 85 (33.6) | Ref | 56 (21.4) | 0.59 (0.41–0.84)d | 53 (19.6) | 0.63 (0.42–0.93)d | 0.0554 |
Tibia | 83 (43.0) | Ref | 70 (34.3) | 0.62 (0.40–0.96)c | 70 (29.9) | 0.56 (0.35–0.90)d | 0.0483 |
Western | |||||||
Radius | 64 (24.3) | Ref | 76 (25.2) | 1.18 (0.83–1.67) | 68 (25.3) | 1.46 (1.02–2.10)c | 0.0428 |
Tibia | 60 (30.0) | Ref | 93 (39.4) | 1.30 (0.82–2.05) | 81 (37.0) | 1.46 (0.91–2.33) | 0.0628 |
aFood lists were from the Semiquantitative Food Frequency questionnaire.
aFood groups with absolute values <0.20 are not shown for simplicity.
BMI = body mass index; SD = standard deviation; SOS = speed of sound.