Table 3.
Stratified analysis (apple consumption).
| Number | HR (95%CI) | P interaction | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <1 times/month | 1–3 times/month | 1–2 times/week | 3–4 times/week | 5–6 times/week | ≧1 times/day | |||
| Hypertension | 0.240 | |||||||
| No | 977 | Ref. | 1.08 (0.64, 1.83) | 0.96 (0.51, 1.78) | 0.84 (0.43, 1.63) | 0.94 (0.36, 2.46) | 0.18 (0.04, 0.78) | |
| Yes | 1,207 | Ref. | 0.87 (0.65, 1.16) | 0.77 (0.56, 1.06) | 0.50 (0.33, 0.78) | 0.64 (0.32, 1.26) | 0.97 (0.61, 1.55) | |
| Diabetes | 0.627 | |||||||
| No | 1768 | Ref. | 0.96 (0.71, 1.30) | 0.79 (0.56, 1.12) | 0.73 (0.48, 1.11) | 0.53 (0.26, 1.10) | 0.93 (0.53, 1.61) | |
| Yes | 416 | Ref. | 0.84 (0.52, 1.34) | 0.80 (0.48, 1.35) | 0.38 (0.18, 0.77) | 0.85 (0.35, 2.04) | 0.71 (0.34, 1.48) | |
| Heart Failure | 0.226 | |||||||
| No | 2045 | Ref. | 0.84 (0.64, 1.12) | 0.75 (0.54, 1.03) | 0.65 (0.44, 0.95) | 0.76 (0.43, 1.35) | 0.74 (0.46, 1.20) | |
| Yes | 139 | Ref. | 1.64 (0.85, 3.16) | 1.14 (0.59, 2.20) | 0.57 (0.18, 1.86) | 0.24 (0.03, 1.81) | 1.41 (0.41, 4.82) | |
| Cardiovascular Disease | 0.619 | |||||||
| No | 1824 | Ref. | 0.94 (0.69, 1.28) | 0.66 (0.46, 0.95) | 0.64 (0.42, 0.98) | 0.75 (0.37, 1.55) | 0.76 (0.44, 1.32) | |
| Yes | 360 | Ref. | 0.87 (0.55, 1.39) | 1.05 (0.65, 1.70) | 0.51 (0.25, 1.04) | 0.70 (0.30, 1.65) | 0.82 (0.38, 1.78) | |
| Stroke | 0.540 | |||||||
| No | 2037 | Ref. | 0.91 (0.69, 1.21) | 0.73 (0.53, 1.01) | 0.60 (0.41, 0.88) | 0.69 (0.39, 1.23) | 0.97 (0.60, 1.56) | |
| Yes | 147 | Ref. | 0.68 (0.35, 1.33) | 1.00 (0.51, 1.96) | 0.69 (0.22, 2.12) | 0.46 (0.06, 3.74) | 0.51 (0.16, 1.57) | |
Adjusted for gender, age, race, education level, ratio of family income to the poverty, muscle strengthening activities, smoking, hypertension, diabetes, heart failure, coronary heart disease and stroke (in addition to the stratification factor itself).