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Table 2 Self-reported diet and exercise changes after PGT

From: Diet and exercise changes following direct-to-consumer personal genomic testing

 

Full Sample

(n = 1,002)

Poor/Fair/Good

SRH (n = 449)

Very Good/Excellent SRH (n = 551)

Tukey-Kramer adjusted p-valuea

Change

%

Paired t-test

%

Paired t-test

%

Paired t-test

 

Fruit servings per days

 Decrease

24.0

Δ = 0.06

(-0.005, 0.12)

p = 0.07

21.2

Δ = 0.11

(0.02, 0.21)

p = 0.0148

26.1

Δ = 0.01

(-0.07, 0.10)

p = 0.77

0.7191

 No Change

49.0

50.1

48.3

 Increase

27.0

28.7

25.6

Vegetable servings per day

 Decrease

21.2

Δ = 0.11

(0.05, 0.17)

p = 0.0003

19.8

Δ = 0.16

(0.07, 0.25)

p = 0.0005

22.3

Δ = 0.06

(-0.01, 0.14)

p = 0.11

0.7032

 No Change

49.8

50.6

49.0

 Increase

29.0

29.6

28.7

Light exercise

 Decrease

35.2

Δ = -0.02

(-0.16, 0.13)

p = 0.80

31.2

Δ = 0.25

(0.03, 0.47)

p = 0.0263

38.7

Δ = -0.25

(-0.06, -0.44)

p = 0.0111

0.0452

 No Change

31.0

32.3

30.0

 Increase

33.8

36.5

31.3

Vigorous exercise

 Decrease

28.7

Δ = 0.09

(-0.02, 0.21)

p = 0.11

24.5

Δ = 0.23

(0.06, 0.41)

p = 0.0097

32.3

Δ = -0.02

(-0.18, 0.13)

p = 0.76

0.1236

 No Change

40.6

44.5

37.4

 Increase

30.7

31.0

30.3

Strength exercise

 Decrease

21.6

Δ = 0.14

(0.03, 0.25)

p = 0.0153

17.4

Δ = 0.19

(0.01, 0.37)

p = 0.0369

25.1

Δ = 0.10

(-0.05, 0.24)

p = 0.18

0.2690

 No Change

53.2

57.2

49.7

 Increase

25.2

25.4

25.2

  1. aAdjusted for baseline behavior, company, age, gender, education, income, race, ethnicity, baseline BMI, baseline self-reported health, season change