Food offerings on board and dietary intake of European and Kiribati seafarers - cross-sectional data from the seafarer nutrition study -

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the population

Variables	Europeans n = 33	Kiribati n = 48	Significance P-value
Age (years)	33 (20–60)	38 (23–64)	ns ^b
Family status
Married (%)	67	77	ns ^a
≥ 1 child (%)	46	81	0.001 ^a
Occupational status
Officer (%)	67	0	< 0.001 ^c
Non-officer (%)	33	100
Body mass index (kg/m²)	25.4 (18.3–35.0)	30.1 (21.1–40.5)	< 0.001 ^b
Waist circumference (cm)	93.0 (75–115)	97 (74–125)	0.045 ^b
Current smokers (%)	47	56	ns ^a

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