Dietary Patterns and Their Association with Metabolic Syndrome and Their Components in Middle-Class Adults from Damascus, Syria: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 2

Dietary intake of the study sample.

	Total (n = 104)		Women (n = 58)		Men (n = 46)
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Energy, Kcal	2556.63	941.34	2322.13	893.17	2852.28	926.02
Carbohydrates, g	309.39	126.08	283.93	133.12	341.50	109.76
Fiber, g	21.40	10.63	20.08	10.38	23.07	10.81
Protein, g	86.77	34.58	78.03	34.02	97.78	32.38
Dietary cholesterol, mg	299.64	158.76	285.00	156.48	318.11	161.40
Fat, g	117.37	58.35	106.61	53.94	130.93	61.39
MUFA, g	50.75	28.60	45.78	24.70	57.00	32.06
PUFA, g	21.63	14.17	19.11	11.42	24.80	16.60
SFA, g	31.03	42.75	32.89	55.57	28.70	16.15
Sugar, g	138.92	64.79	135.15	64.36	143.67	65.72
Retinol, μg	544.16	580.03	574.34	741.92	506.10	264.88
Vitamin D, μg	413.08	4190.69	2.10	1.69	931.27	6301.20
Vitamin E, mg	16.96	10.92	15.44	11.29	18.88	10.22
Vitamin K, μg	224.29	809.37	369.69	1063.66	40.96	68.62
Sodium, mg	4186.21	1877.84	3704.17	1659.22	4793.99	1976.61
Vitamin B6, mg	3.39	6.10	2.78	1.10	4.17	9.09
Vitamin B12, mg	13.15	17.25	9.98	14.16	17.14	19.95
Folic acid, μg	516.11	250.76	482.87	238.84	558.00	261.64
Potassium, mg	3955.15	1546.33	3661.51	1323.15	4325.39	1733.27
Calcium, mg	1064.89	446.12	995.13	374.87	1152.85	513.19
Magnesium, mg	396.63	146.80	380.06	151.26	417.51	139.81
Phosphorus, mg	1572.13	668.12	1486.98	736.21	1679.50	560.39
Iron, mg	12.87	5.03	11.79	4.71	14.21	5.16

MUFA: monounsaturated fatty acids; PUFA: polyunsaturated fatty acids; SFA: saturated fatty acids; SD: standard deviation.