Higher global diet quality score is related to lower prevalence of depression and poor quality of life among adolescent girls

Table 1 General characteristics of study participants by tertile of GDQS

	T1	T2	T3	P value*
Age(year)	14.70 ± 1.608	14.40 ± 1.524	14.53 ± 1.467	0.09
Percentile BMI (kg/m2 )	42.00 ± 28.65310	49.36 ± 28.48770	50.76 ± 29.36819	< 0.01
Waist circumference (cm)	69.47 ± 8.121	70.47 ± 9.460	71.62 ± 9.221	0.07
Waist-to-hip ratio	0.76 ± 0.05294	0.76 ± 0.06753	0.76 ± 0.05575	0.79
Physical activity (MET h/week)	45.05 ± 2.85	45.39 ± 3.63701	45.67 ± 3.60948	0.21
Menstruation (yes) n (%)	170 (91.4)	322 (89.2)	170 (93.4)	0.26
Quality of life score	41.30 ± 7.84	41.77 ± 8.10	43.47 ± 7.75	0.02
Depression score	11.56 ± 8.88	11.48 ± 9.50	9.16 ± 9.03	0.01

BMI: Body mass index; GDQS: Global Diet Quality Score
Values are means ± SD and number (prevalence percent) for quantitative and qualitative variables, respectively.
*Obtained from one way Anova for continuous variables and Chi-squared test for categorical variables

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