Potential impact of restricted caribou ( Rangifer tarandus ) consumption on anemia prevalence among Inuit adults in northern Canada

Table 5 Multivariable linear regression¹ coefficients for hemoglobin, with both dietary and non-dietary determinants as independent variables². Inuit adults: International Polar Year Inuit Health Survey, 2007–2008

	Coefficient	SE	P
Constant	123.741	3.093	0.000
Caribou consumption (g/day)³	0.008	0.003	0.009
Other CF consumption (g/day)⁴	−0.008	0.004	0.020
Age (years)	−0.139	0.030	0.000
Male sex	14.243	0.818	0.000
Region	0.869	0.300	0.004
Current smoker	−0.457	0.873	0.601
BMI (kg/m²)	0.204	0.061	0.001
Postsecondary education	0.919	0.512	0.073
Married	1.233	0.788	0.118
Income above CAD $ 40,000	−0.011	0.015	0.459
H. pylori seropositivity (% inhibition)	−0.263	0.815	0.747
Food insecure	−2.096	0.813	0.010

¹ Model R² = 0.23; Model adjusted R² = 0.22
² Sex, region, smoking status, marital status, post-secondary education, income, and food insecurity (includes both moderate and severe food security) were treated as binary or dummy variables
³Average daily caribou meat consumption (g/person/day) was based on the food frequency questionnaire and was averaged across seasons. Average caribou meat consumption was expressed on a fresh weight basis as sum of caribou meat and caribou dry meat (corrected for moisture content difference)
⁴ Other country food consumption represented the aggregated total of meat from all other (non-caribou) country food species, including birds, land mammals (e.g. muskox meat) and marine mammals (e.g. ringed seal meat)

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