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Published in final edited form as: J Am Diet Assoc. 2011 Jan;111(1):84–91. doi: 10.1016/j.jada.2010.10.012

Table 4.

Relative risk (95% confidence interval) of all-cause mortality of Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study participants by dietary pattern cluster

	Healthy foods (n=374)	High-fat dairy products (n=332)	Meat, fried foods, and alcohol (n=693)	Breakfast cereal (n=386)	Refined grains (n=458)	Sweets and desserts (n=339)
Number of deaths	77	109	209	105	135	104
%	21.0	34.0	30.9	28.2	30.2	32.0
	relative risk (95% confidence interval)
Model 1^a	1.00	1.59 (1.19, 2.14)^*	1.39 (1.06, 1.82)^*	1.25 (0.93, 1.69)	1.32 (0.99, 1.76)	1.52 (1.13, 2.04)^*
Model 2^b	1.00	1.40 (1.04, 1.88)^*	1.21 (0.92, 1.60)	1.16 (0.86, 1.56)	1.08 (0.80, 1.45)	1.37 (1.02, 1.86)^*

Adjusted for sex, age, and race.

Adjusted for sex, age, race, clinical site, education, physical activity, smoking status, and total energy intake.

Significantly different from the Healthy Foods cluster at P≤0.05, based on Cox proportional hazards regression.