. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: Public Health Nutr. 2012 Jan 10;15(10):1909–1916. doi: 10.1017/S1368980011003454

Table 4.

Parameter estimates (β coefficient, 95% confidence interval) relating blood pressure (BP) and dietary pattern by antihypertensive medication status, adjusted for gender and age: white subjects representing the Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2) cohort, USA and Canada

	Systolic BP				Diastolic BP
	No treatment (n 374)		All (n 500)		No treatment (n 374)		All (n 500)
	β	95% CI	β	95% CI	β	95% CI	β	95% CI
Non-vegetarian	0·0		0·0		0·0		0·0
Partial vegetarian	−5·1	−10·6, 0·4	−4·9	−10·5, 0·8	−4·4^**	−7·5, −1·2	−4·2^**	−7·3, −1·07
Lacto-ovo vegetarian	−9·1^***	−13·1, −4·9	−8·9^***	−13·1, −4·7	−5·8^***	−8·1, −3·4	−5·7^***	−7·5, −2·9
Vegan	−6·8^*	−12·7, −1·0	−7·1^**	−12·9, −1·4	−6·9^***	−10·1, −3·7	−6·6^***	−9·0, −3·1
Gender (female/male)	0·7	−3·0, 4·5	−·5	−0·8, 5·9	−1·2	−3·3, 1·0	−0·8	−2·6, 1·0
Age (per year)	0·6^***	0·5, 0·8	0·6^***	0·5, 0·8	−0·003	−0·08, 0·08	−0·04	−0·1, 0·02
Medication (no/yes)	No entries		0·6	−4·8, 6·1	No entries		0·57	−3·5, 2·4
Exercise^†	−0·01	−0·3, 0·3	0·04	−0·2, 0·3	−0·05	−0·2, 0·1	−0·03	−0·2, 0·1
Lacto-ovo×medication	No entries		9·5^*	1·5, 17·6	No entries		No entries

P,0·05

^**

P,0·01

^***

P,0·001.

^†

Hours per week of moderate/hard/very hard physical activity.