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Table 5 Statistical analysison relationship between catecholamine intake at breakfast, circadian typology, and mental health

From: The relationship between consumption of tyrosine and phenylalanine as precursors of catecholamine at breakfast and the circadian typology and mental health in Japanese infants aged 2 to 5 years

 

Morningness-eveningness scores

Scores of mental health scale

 

df

F value

P value

df

F value

P value

One-Way ANOVA

1

7.997

0.005

1

8.302

0.004

ANCOVA

1

0.018

0.894

1

5.773

0.017

  1. One-Way ANOVA, variance: catecholamine amount; ANCOVA, variance: catecholamine amount, covariance: tryptophan amount. The ANCOVA results show that the catecholamine relates with mental health but chronotype is related not with the catecholamine but with tryptophan taken at breakfast, from an epidemiological point of view.