Fig 3. Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) for incident T2DM according to a DDS.

For this analysis we used servings/day or servings/week (i.e. normative or absolute cut-off points [31,32]), assigning one point to each of the 12 goals accomplished. Results represent a fully adjusted model, adjusted for age (as the underlying time variable), sex, total energy intake, following a special diet, snacking between meals, BMI, physical activity, hours of television watching, hours sitting down, smoking, marital status, personal history of hypertension, and family history of diabetes [parents and/or siblings]).