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Table 4 Self-reported food consumption among pregnant primiparous women (mean (SD)).

From: Determinants of serum concentrations of organochlorine compounds in Swedish pregnant women: a cross-sectional study

Food products

Pregnancy year (g/day)

Adolescence (g/day)a

Difference (g/day)b

Meat, meat products

103 (47)

113 (49)

12 (49)*

Milk fat

26 (14)

31 (20)

6 (17)*

Vegetable fat

13 (10)

  

Eggs

12 (9)

14 (9)

3 (9)*

Fish total

24 (20)

32 (24)

8 (21)*

Lean fish

18 (15)

23 (18)

6 (17)*

Fatty Baltic fish

1 (3)

3 (5)

2 (5)*

Other fatty fish

5 (6)

5 (6)

-0.3 (6)

  1. aThe year women attended 7th grade in school. In Sweden 13–14 years old. Data for vegetable fat missing since no questions about vegetable fat was asked for this time period.
  2. bDifference between consumption during adolescence and consumption during the year they became pregnant.
  3. *Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test, p ≤ 0.05, N = 222–226.