Consumption of herbal infusions/decoctions and tea in Greece: a Planeterranean perspective on the results of Hydria survey

Table 1 Socio-demographic, lifestyle, and health characteristics of HYDRIA participants, according to the herbal infusions/decoctions’ consumption

Characteristic	Men			Women			Total
	Consumers	No consumers (%)	p-value¹	Consumers	No consumers (%)	p-value¹	Consumers	No consumers (%)	p-value¹
	(%)	No consumers (%)	p-value¹	(%)	No consumers (%)	p-value¹	(%)	No consumers (%)	p-value¹
Age, years
18–34	6.7	27.1	0.00	16.3	24.1	0.0112	12.1	25.6	0.0000
35–44	13.5	19.5		10.6	18.3		11.9	18.9
45–54	11.8	18.4		12.0	17.5		12.5	17.9
55–64	12.5	14.9		19.5	14.6		16.5	14.8
65–74	19.5	11.1		20.9	11.9		20.2	11.5
≥ 75	36.0	9.0		19.8	13.6		26.9	11.6
Education²
Low	53.1	33.3	0.0049	53.3	43.07	0.1371	53.2	38.3	0.0018
Intermediate	27.2	42.4		28.1	36.5		27.7	39.4
High	19.7	24.3		18.7	20.4		19.1	22.3
Occupation³
Employed	26.9	54.2	0.0000	26.5	32.3	0.136	26.7	42.9	0.0000
Unemployed	13.4	14.7		11.5	14.9		12.3	14.8
Student	2.9	5.7		2.9	5.2		2.9	5.4
Pensioner	56.8	25.4		30.8	21.2		42.3	23.2
House-keeping	–	–		28.4	26.5		15.9	13.6
Residential area
Urban	46.1	60.6	0.0519	57.4	62.2	0.222	52.4	61.4	0.0345
Semi-urban	17.6	15.1		9.8	13.8		13.3	14.5
Rural area	36.4	24.3		32.7	24		34.3	24.1
Smoking⁴
Smoker	20.1	41.1	0.0004	24.8	33.2	0.1443	22.8	37	0.0002
Former smoker	52.0	28.4		13.3	12.8		30.3	20.3
Never smoker	28.0	30.5		61.9	54.1		46.9	42.7
WHR⁵
No risk	12.8	30.0	0.0073	43.3	52.2	0.1004	30.0	41.5	0.0032
Increased risk	87.2	70.0	0.0073	56.7	47.8	0.1004	70.0	58.5	0.0032
Chronic morbility⁶
Yes	69.9	49.6	0.0067	76.3	66.2	0.0937	73.5	58.1	0.0007
No	30.1	50.2	0.0067	23.7	33.7	0.0937	26.5	41.7	0.0007

¹p-Values comparing herbal infusions/decoctions consumers to herbal infusions/decoctions no consumers estimated by chi-squared test
²Low: ≤ 9 years of education; intermediate: 10–12 years of education; high: ≥ 12 years of education including individuals with postgraduate and/or doctoral degrees
³Employed category includes unpaid employees in family businesses, paid apprentices, investors, and persons on sick leave, holiday leave, maternity, or parental leave; the student category includes unpaid interns
⁴Smoker category includes current or occasional smokers
⁵Increased risk defined as waist-to-hip ratio WHR ≥ 0·90 in men and WHR ≥ 0·85 in women [68]
⁶Participants reported if they were ill or had been ill the previous 12 months or longer with specific diseases and if diagnosed with the disease by a doctor (self-reported data). The percentages for the category “don’t know” were not included

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