Table 4.
Association between the calibrated intake of fruits and vegetables and risk of fatal ischaemic heart disease according to various subgroups
| Number of IHD deaths | Total fruit and vegetable intake (per 80 g/day) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| RR (95% CI)a | χ2-value | P-value for heterogeneity | ||
| Sex | ||||
| Men | 1149 | 0.98 (0.94, 1.02) | 7.17 | 0.007 |
| Women | 487 | 0.85 (0.77, 0.94) | ||
| Age at recruitment (years) | ||||
| <60 | 618 | 0.97 (0.92, 1.02) | 0.50 | 0.481 |
| ≥60 | 1018 | 0.94 (0.90, 1.00) | ||
| Smoking | ||||
| Never | 473 | 0.92 (0.87, 0.99) | ||
| Former | 549 | 0.98 (0.93, 1.04) | 2.66 | 0.264 |
| Current | 614 | 0.95 (0.90, 1.00) | ||
| Country | ||||
| Denmark | 131 | 0.99 (0.87–1.11) | ||
| Germany | 165 | 0.93 (0.80–1.08) | ||
| Greece | 175 | 0.84 (0.71–0.99) | ||
| Italy | 58 | 1.00 (0.84–1.19) | 12.10 | 0.097 |
| The Netherlands | 106 | 1.04 (0.89–1.23) | ||
| Spain | 122 | 0.95 (0.87–1.03) | ||
| Sweden | 383 | 0.82 (0.73–0.94) | ||
| UK | 496 | 1.01 (0.94–1.08) | ||
aStratified by sex and centre and adjusted for smoking, alcohol intake, BMI, physical activity, marital status, highest education level, current employment, hypertension, angina pectoris, diabetes mellitus, and total energy intake where appropriate.