FIGURE 2.

Associations between Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) tertiles (T) and all-cause and cause-specific mortality over 18 y of follow-up for the 7319 Whitehall II participants. Cox proportional hazards models were adjusted for sex, age, ethnic group, marital status, occupational grade, smoking habits, total energy intake, physical activity, BMI categories, concentrations of inflammatory markers (C-reactive protein and interleukin-6) categorized in tertiles, metabolic syndrome status, prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD), dyslipidemia, hypertension, and prevalence of type 2 diabetes status at baseline. For 7 participants, data on cause of death were missing.