Table 2.

Hazard ratio for the association between adherence to the healthy Nordic food index and T2D risk (n = 55,060)—The Danish Diet, Cancer and Health cohort.

	Women (n = 28,953)									Men (n = 26,107)
	Cases (n)	Model 1 *		Model 2 **		Model 3 ***		Model 4 ****		Cases (n)	Model 1 *		Model 2 **		Model 3 ***		Model 4 ****
		HR	95% CI	HR	95% CI	HR	95% CI	HR	95% CI		HR	95% CI	HR	95% CI	HR	95% CI	HR	95% CI
Healthy Nordic food index (linear, per 1-unit increase)	3269	0.92	0.90–0.94	0.94	0.92–0.97	0.96	0.94–0.99	0.97	0.94–1.00	4097	0.89	0.87–0.90	0.91	0.89–0.93	0.93	0.91–0.95	0.95	0.93–0.98
Healthy Nordic food index (category)
0	126	1.00	Reference	1.00	Reference	1.00	Reference	1.00	Reference	367	1.00	Reference	1.00	Reference	1.00	Reference	1.00	Reference
1	553	1.00	0.83–1.26	0.99	0.82–1.20	1.02	0.84-1.23	1.01	0.83–1.23	803	0.87	0.77–0.98	0.89	0.78–1.00	0.91	0.80–1.03	0.96	0.85–1.09
2	792	0.93	0.77–1.12	0.94	0.78–1.14	0.99	0.82–1.12	1.02	0.85–1.24	990	0.83	0.74–0.94	0.88	0.78–0.99	0.91	0.81–1.03	0.98	0.86–1.11
3	778	0.85	0.70–1.03	0.89	0.73–1.07	0.95	0.78–1.15	0.97	0.80–1.18	898	0.72	0.63–0.81	0.78	0.69–0.88	0.82	0.72–0.93	0.89	0.78–1.02
4	627	0.80	0.66–0.94	0.86	0.71–1.04	0.94	0.77–1.15	0.96	0.79–1.17	652	0.61	0.54–0.70	0.69	0.60–0.78	0.74	0.65–0.86	0.83	0.72–0.95
5–6	393	0.68	0.56–0.84	0.75	0.61–0.92	0.85	0.85–1.05	0.89	0.72–1.10	387	0.54	0.47–0.62	0.62	0.53–0.71	0.69	0.59–0.80	0.80	0.69–0.94
P for trend (linear)		p < 0.0001		p < 0.0001		p = 0.0100		p = 0.0436			p < 0.0001		p < 0.0001		p < 0.0001		p < 0.0001

Note: All models are adjusted for age as underlying time scale and for "time under study"; Abbreviations: HR: Hazard Ratio. CI: Confidence intervals; * Crude; ** Adjusted for schooling level, participation in sports, smoking status, alcohol intake, red and processed meat; *** Additionally adjusted for total energy intake; **** Additionally adjusted for body mass index and waist circumference.