The effects of a low carbohydrate diet combined with partial meal replacement on obese individuals

Nutrition & Metabolism

Table 2 Participant baseline data

	Control group	Intervention group 1	Intervention group 2	P (total)
Age ^a	33.00 ± 14.00	34.00 ± 11.00	33.00 ± 14.00	0.657
Gender ^b				0.214
male	26	25	20
female	7	8	13
Nationality ^b				0.384
Han	33	32	32
others	0	1	1
Labor intensity ^b				0.169
light manual labor	31	29	28
medium manual labor	2	4	4
heavy physical labor	0	0	1
Education level ^b				0.088
bachelor degree or above	23	28	28
junior college	4	2	2
high school or technical secondary school	3	1	3
junior high school	2	2	0
primary school and below	1	0	0
Marital status ^b				0.094
married	25	24	19
unmarried	8	8	13
divorce	0	1	1
Smoking situation ^b				0.223
no smoking	26	29	23
used to smoke and have quit smoking	2	0	1
smoke	5	4	9
Drinking situation ^b				0.119
no drinking	28	22	22
used to drink and have quit smoking	1	0	2
drink	4	11	9
Height (cm) ^a	171.60 ± 11.90	173.30 ± 16.60	170.20 ± 14.70	0.907

^aSkewness distribution was expressed by the median ± interquartile range (Me ± IQR). The rank sum test was used to test for comparisons between groups
^bClassified variables were expressed by frequency. Chi square tests were used to test for comparisons between groups

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