Table 2.

 Incidence and relative risk of type 2 diabetes (confirmed cases) during follow-up according to adherence (Trichopoulou’s score²²) to Mediterranean food pattern at baseline

	No in group	Unadjusted cumulative incidence of type 2 diabetes (%)	Incidence rate ratio* adjusted for age and sex (95% CI)	Multivariate adjusted incidence rate ratio (95% CI)†
Low (score 0-2)	2253	0.40	1 (reference)	1 (reference)
Moderate (score 3-6)	9604	0.23	0.41 (0.19 to 0.87)	0.40 (0.18 to 0.90)
High (score 7-9)	1523	0.13	0.17 (0.04 to 0.75)	0.17 (0.04 to 0.72)

*Poisson regression model with robust standard errors.

†Adjusted for sex, age, years of university education (three categories), body mass index (continuous), family history of diabetes (two categories), hypertension at baseline (two categories), physical activity (three categories), hours/week sitting down (five categories), smoking (three categories), total energy intake (continuous). P=0.04 for trend from likelihood ratio test when Trichopoulou’s score was introduced as continuous variable in fully multivariate adjusted model.