Diet diversity and food quality score in male football players and healthy non-athlete controls in relation to oxidative stress biomarkers: a descriptive-analytical study

Table 3 The comparison of DDS and FQS scores between football player and non-athlete groups

Variables		B	SE	95% Wald Confidence Interval (Lower, Upper)	P-value*
DDS	Non-athletes	Reference	.	.	.
DDS	Football players	1.30	0.32	(0.67, 1.93)	< 0.001
FQS	Non-athletes	Reference	.	.	.
FQS	Football players	5.46	1.23	(3.04, 7.88)	< 0.001

DDS, dietary diversity score; FQS, food quality score
*P-value is based on GEE model with identity link function and exchangeable correlation structure (study groups were matched for age and BMI)
Bold p-value (< 0.05) is considered as statistically significant

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