Table 3

Score coefficients derived from principal component analysis of foods or food groups consumed by community-based adults participating in the Dhulikhel Heart Study

	Components
Food groups	1	2	3	4
Whole grains	0.314	−0.002	0.013	0.040
Refined grains	0.171	−0.032	0.421	−0.034
Lentils	0.753	0.052	−0.024	−0.004
Vegetable oils	0.242	−0.019	−0.093	0.021
Solid fats	0.011	0.229	−0.033	0.556
Fatty foods	0.652	0.298	0.001	−0.095
Vegetables	0.860	−0.045	0.020	0.027
Fruits	0.788	0.215	0.084	0.116
Potatoes	0.469	0.175	0.101	−0.006
Nuts	0.348	0.139	0.123	0.229
Poultry	0.333	0.302	0.434	0.000
Red meat	0.116	0.150	0.664	−0.088
Fish	−0.032	0.229	0.628	0.147
Milk	−0.070	−0.138	−0.039	0.659
Milk products	0.125	0.101	0.026	0.709
Fast food	0.275	0.665	0.241	0.099
Processed cereal	0.355	0.021	0.115	0.259
Noodles	0.510	0.437	0.203	−0.041
Salty snacks	0.436	0.091	0.008	−0.079
Soda drinks	0.286	0.499	0.193	0.121
Tea/coffee	0.459	−0.036	0.063	0.198
Sweets	−0.004	0.738	−0.092	−0.007
Alcohol	−0.081	−0.289	0.594	−0.055

Extraction method: principal component analysis; rotation method: varimax with Kaiser normalisation.
Score coefficients >0.4 are shown in bold.