Table 2 Socio-demographic, lifestyle, and health characteristics of HYDRIA participants, according to the tea consumption
Characteristic | Men | Women | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Consumers | No consumers (%) | p-value1 | Consumers | No consumers (%) | p-value1 | Consumers | No consumers (%) | p-value1 | |
(%) | (%) | (%) | |||||||
Age, years | |||||||||
18–34 | 20.9 | 25.9 | 0.2291 | 23.5 | 23.2 | 0.0370 | 22.2 | 24.5 | 0.3776 |
35–44 | 21.2 | 18.9 | 14.7 | 18.1 | 17.5 | 18.5 | |||
45–54 | 12.3 | 18.2 | 24.6 | 16.2 | 19.3 | 17.2 | |||
55–64 | 13.8 | 14.9 | 12.1 | 15.4 | 12.8 | 15.1 | |||
65–74 | 16.5 | 11.3 | 7.2 | 13.3 | 12.4 | 12.4 | |||
≥ 75 | 15.3 | 10.8 | 18.0 | 13.8 | 12.3 | 12.3 | |||
Education2 | |||||||||
Low | 30.0 | 35.1 | 0.5016 | 35.7 | 44.8 | 0.0654 | 33.2 | 40.0 | 0.1228 |
Intermediate | 42.9 | 41.7 | 43.1 | 35.3 | 43.0 | 38.4 | |||
High | 27.1 | 23.2 | 21.2 | 19.9 | 23.8 | 21.5 | |||
Occupation3 | |||||||||
Employed | 46.3 | 52.4 | 0.1328 | 29.9 | 32.1 | 0.4746 | 37.1 | 42.0 | 0.3970 |
Unemployed | 12.2 | 14.8 | 15.9 | 14.5 | 14.3 | 14.6 | |||
Student | 6.0 | 5.4 | 0.7 | 4.7 | 6.6 | 5.0 | |||
Pensioner | 35.1 | 27.4 | 23.7 | 21.9 | 28.7 | 24.5 | |||
House-keeping | – | – | 28.5 | 26.9 | 13.3 | 13.8 | |||
Residential area | |||||||||
Urban | 56.1 | 59.4 | 0.8292 | 65.9 | 61.2 | 0.3496 | 61.6 | 60.3 | 0.7834 |
Semi-urban | 16.5 | 15.3 | 10.0 | 14.0 | 12.9 | 14.6 | |||
Rural area | 27.4 | 25.3 | 24.1 | 24.9 | 25.5 | 25.1 | |||
Smoking4 | |||||||||
Smoker | 30.0 | 40.4 | 0.0578 | 30.8 | 32.5 | 0.8874 | 30.2 | 36.4 | 0.0778 |
Former smoker | 30.3 | 30.4 | 12.6 | 12.8 | 20.1 | 21.3 | |||
Never smoker | 40.1 | 29.2 | 56.6 | 54.7 | 49.6 | 42.3 | |||
WHR5 | |||||||||
No risk | 30.0 | 28.8 | 0.9636 | 49.9 | 51.7 | 0.7133 | 41.0 | 40.5 | 0.8985 |
Increased risk | 71.0 | 71.2 | 50.1 | 48.3 | 59.0 | 59.5 | |||
Chronic morbility6 | |||||||||
Yes | 60.4 | 50.4 | 0.1436 | 66.9 | 67.3 | 0.9011 | 64.1 | 59.0 | 0.2261 |
No | 39.6 | 49.4 | 33.2 | 32.7 | 35.9 | 40.8 | |||