Table 3.

Association of Adherence to AHEI at Baseline with 4 Aging Outcomes at Follow-up (n = 5350), the Whitehall II Study

AHEI Score at Baseline	Aging Outcome at Follow-up
	Ideal Aging			Nonfatal CVD			CVD Death			Non-CVD Death
	OR	95% CI	P Value	OR	95% CI	P Value	OR	95% CI	P Value	OR	95% CI	P Value
Model 1
Tertile 1	1	Ref		1	Ref		1	Ref		1	Ref
Tertile 2	1.63	1.15-2.30	.006	0.87	0.71-1.07	.19	0.51	0.34-0.78	.001	0.68	0.53-0.88	.004
Tertile 3	1.23	0.85-1.78	.28	1.04	0.85-1.28	.69	0.51	0.34-0.77	.001	0.72	0.55-0.94	.01
Effect per 1 SD	1.13	0.98-1.31	.10	1.00	0.92-1.09	.99	0.72	0.61-0.86	<.0001	0.82	0.73-0.93	.002
Model 2
Tertile 1	1	Ref		1	Ref		1	Ref		1	Ref
Tertile 2	1.48	1.04-2.09	.02	0.92	0.74-1.13	.40	0.58	0.37-0.84	.006	0.79	0.61-1.02	.07
Tertile 3	1.07	0.73-1.55	.73	1.12	0.91-1.38	.28	0.60	0.39-0.92	.02	0.75	0.57-0.98	.03
Effect per 1 SD	1.06	0.91-1.23	.45	1.04	0.95-1.13	.40	0.79	0.66-0.94	.007	0.83	0.75-0.93	.001

AHEI = the Alternative Healthy Eating Index; CI = confidence interval; CVD = cardiovascular disease; OR = odds ratio.

Model 1: Adjusted for age, sex and total energy intake.

Model 2: Model 1 + additionally adjusted for smoking habits and physical activity.

Results are from logistic regression models estimating the association of adherence to AHEI at baseline with 4 aging outcomes at follow-up: ideal health (n = 213), nonfatal cardiovascular disease (n = 680), cardiovascular death (n = 149), and noncardiovascular death (n = 392).

From the distribution of these factor scores, participants were categorized into tertiles for each pattern: the Tertile 1 group included participants with a factor score below the 33^rd percentile, the Tertile 2 group included participants with a factor score in the 33^th-66^th percentile range and the Tertile 3 group included those with a factor score above the 66^th percentile.