Nutrient patterns and risk of diabetes mellitus type 2: a case-control study

BMC Endocrine Disorders

Table 1 Factor loading matrix and explained variances for major nutrient patterns identified by factor analysis in 225 cases and 225 controls *^†

Nutrient patterns
Nutrients	Pattern 1	Pattern 2	Pattern 3
Animal protein	0.67
Plant protein		0.68	0.85
Saturated fatty acids	0.36	-0.48
Mono unsaturated fatty acids	-0.30
Poly unsaturated fatty acids
Cholesterol
Sucrose	0.91
Lactose		-0.40
Fructose
Fiber		0.76	0.53
Vitamin B1	0.88		-0.32
Vitamin B2		0.71	0.46
Vitamin B3
Vitamin B5		0.52
Vitamin B6
Folate
Vitamin B12	0.49
Vitamin C			0.79
Vitamin A			0.49
Vitamin D		0.78
Vitamin E	0.63
Vitamin K
Iron
Zinc	0.58		0.35
Copper		0.59	0.31
Magnesium		0.45
Manganese
Calcium	0.92		0.76
Phosphor	0.91
Sodium
Potassium	0.48		0.64
Explained variance (%)	24.30	20.95	10.86
Cumulative explained variance (%)	24.30	45.25	56.11

^*Principal Component Analysis performed on 34 nutrients calculated as intake per 1000 Kcal
Nutrients with loadings > 0.40 and less than − 0.40 (in bold) are being characteristic for the four patterns; loadings less than 0.3 (in absolute value) are suppressed
^†Kaiser’s Measure of Sampling Adequacy, KMO = 0.71, Bartlett’s test of sphericity = < 0.001

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