Table 4.

Odds ratios for chronic disease prevention associated with components from principal components analysis (PCA); people from three Central Australian Aboriginal communities

	Absence of diabetes		Absence of hypertension		Absence of CVD		Absence of chronic kidney disease
PCA component	OR	95 % CI	OR	95 % CI	OR	95 % CI	OR	95 % CI
Component 1: ‘lipids’	0·73	0·40, 1·33	0·45	0·26, 0·75	0·43	0·21, 0·89	0·76	0·49, 1·19
Component 2: ‘adiposity’	0·43	0·28, 0·66	0·52	0·34, 0·79	0·41	0·21, 0·80	0·97	0·70, 1·33
Component 3: ‘dietary quality’	0·74	0·47, 1·14	1·50	0·98, 2·27	2·13	1·08, 4·17	1·31	0·93, 1·84
Component 4: ‘habitus with inverse quality diet’	0·97	0·48, 1·94	0·59	0·30, 1·14	1·25	0·40, 3·90	0·97	0·56, 1·67

Data are odds ratio and 95 % CI adjusted for age, sex, smoking status and community of residence; values in bold font indicate significance at the 95 % CI level.