Table 2.

Characteristics of 63,805 Participants in the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study by Lowest and Highest Quintile Scores on 4 Diet Quality Indices, 1993–2010

Characteristic	Diet Quality Index
	HEIa				AHEIb				aMEDc				DASHd
	Quintile 1		Quintile 5		Quintile 1		Quintile 5		Quintile 1		Quintile 5		Quintile 1		Quintile 5
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Total participants	12,761		12,761		12,761		12,761		11,685		15,708		14,330		14,576
Deaths from any cause	1,292		1,061		1,296		1,027		1,263		1,211		1,400		1,181
Deaths from cardiovascular disease	311		267		334		254		325		324		353		308
Deaths from cancer	544		447		514		468		509		534		592		507
Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic white		77		88		79		87		80		88		73		91
Black		12		8		13		4		9		6		14		4
Hispanic		6		2		5		2		6		2		7		2
Other		5		4		3		6		5		4		6		3
College graduate		30		52		29		58		30		55		29		57
Married/living as married		60		65		61		65		61		66		62		62
Never smoker		48		53		53		46		51		51		49		53
Postmenopausal hormone therapy
Never		44		36		44		36		43		36		43		37
Former		13		14		13		13		14		13		13		13
Current		42		50		42		51		43		51		43		50
Diabetes		14		9		14		9		13		9		14		8

Abbreviations: AHEI, Alternative Healthy Eating Index 2010; aMED, Alternate Mediterranean Diet Score; DASH, Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension; HEI, Healthy Eating Index 2010.

^a From Guenther et al. (5).

^b From Chiuve et al. (8).

^c From Fung et al. (10).

^d From Fung et al. (11).