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Published in final edited form as: Nat Med. 2023 Mar 13;29(3):719–728. doi: 10.1038/s41591-023-02235-5

Extended Data Table 6.

Associations between cumulative average dietary patterns and risk of major chronic disease using the same reference group

Pattern Model Reference group Highest Quintile
AHEI-2010 Cases 23,708 7,660
Person-year 2,292,086 967,242
Age 1 0.66 (0.64, 0.68)
MV 1 0.75 (0.73, 0.77)
AMED Cases 23,708 7,625
Person-year 2,292,086 972,409
Age 1 0.67 (0.65, 0.68)
MV 1 0.77 (0.75, 0.79)
hPDI Cases 23,708 8,063
Person-year 2,292,086 972,078
Age 1 0.69 (0.67, 0.71)
MV 1 0.78 (0.76, 0.80)
DASH Cases 23,708 7,857
Person-year 2,292,086 972,141
Age 1 0.66 (0.65, 0.68)
MV 1 0.78 (0.76, 0.80)
DRRD Cases 23,708 7,463
Person-year 2,292,086 972,819
Age 1 0.64 (0.63, 0.66)
MV 1 0.74 (0.72, 0.76)
WCRF/AICR Cases 23,708 8,841
Person-year 2,292,086 970,161
Age 1 0.75 (0.73, 0.77)
MV 1 0.86 (0.84, 0.88)
rEDIH Cases 23,708 7,164
Person-year 2,292,086 969,987
Age 1 0.62 (0.60, 0.63)
MV 1 0.67 (0.65, 0.69)
rEDIP Cases 23,708 6,690
Person-year 2,292,086 971,184
Age 1 0.64 (0.62, 0.66)
MV 1 0.67 (0.65, 0.69)

AHEI-2010, Alternative Healthy Eating Index-2010; AMED, Alternate Mediterranean Diet score; CI, Confidence interval; DASH, Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension score; DRRD, Diabetes Risk Reduction Diet; hPDI, Healthful plant-based diet index; HR, Hazard ratio; MV, multivariable; rEDIH, reversed Empirical dietary index for hyperinsulinemia; rEDIP, reversed Empirical dietary inflammation pattern; WCRF/AICR, World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research (WCRF/AICR) dietary score.

Participants who were in the highest quintile of each dietary pattern were compared with those who were never in the highest quintile of any pattern. Analyses were stratified by age (in month), calendar year, and cohort. MV model: adjusted for family history of diabetes (yes or no), family history of cancer (yes or no), family history of cardiovascular disease (yes or no), physical activity (<3.0, 3.0-8.9, 9.0-17.9, 18.0-26.9, 27.0-41.9, or ≥42 MET-h/week), cigarette smoking status (never, former quitting ≥10 y, former quitting <10 y, current), cigarette smoking pack-years (0, 1-4, 5-14, 15-24, or ≥25 pack-years), multivitamin use (yes or no), regular aspirin use (yes or no), regular non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs use (yes or no), postmenopausal hormone use (premenopausal, never, former, or current use) for women, and total energy intake (quintiles). For DASH, hPDI, and DRRD, alcohol consumption (<5.0, 5.0-14.9, or ≥15.0 g/d) was additionally adjusted for.