TABLE 5.

HRs (95% CIs) for sudden cardiac death according to quintile of dietary pattern score by using a simple time-varying analysis¹

	Mediterranean diet score quintile						DASH2 diet score quintile
	1	2	3	4	5	P-trend	1	2	3	4	5	P-trend
No. of events	59	37	49	47	45		52	56	57	41	31
Model 1	1.0 (reference)	0.50 (0.33, 0.75)	0.70 (0.49, 0.98)	0.56 (0.38, 0.83)	0.49 (0.33, 0.73)	<0.01	1.0 (reference)	0.91 (0.63, 1.33)	0.79 (0.54, 1.15)	0.65 (0.43, 0.99)	0.48 (0.31, 0.75)	<0.01
Model 2	1.0 (reference)	0.80 (0.53, 1.20)	0.62 (0.43, 0.90)	0.70 (0.48, 1.03)	0.64 (0.43, 0.94)	0.18	1.0 (reference)	1.04 (0.71, 1.52)	1.00 (0.68, 1.46)	0.88 (0.57, 1.34)	0.69 (0.43, 1.10)	0.09
Model 3	1.0 (reference)	0.81 (0.54, 1.23)	0.69 (0.47, 1.00)	0.76 (0.52, 1.11)	0.67 (0.46, 0.99)	0.21	1.0 (reference)	1.09 (0.75, 1.60)	1.11 (0.75, 1.63)	0.95 (0.62, 1.45)	0.86 (0.54, 1.38)	0.46

¹Model 1 was adjusted for age and energy. Model 2 was adjusted as for model 1 and for race, income, smoking status, and physical activity. Model 3 was adjusted as for model 2 and for the following potential mediators: pulse in 60 s, waist-to-hip ratio, BMI, coronary artery disease, heart failure, diabetes, and hypertension. All quintile cutoffs were based on the baseline.

²DASH, Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension.