Table 6.

Associations between changes in Diet Quality Index and changes in respectively anthropometric parameters (waist circumference, Body Mass Index) and blood lipids (total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, ratio total/HDL cholesterol, triglycerides)

	Men (N = 373)				Women (N = 197)
	Model 1		Model 2		Model 1		Model 2
	β	R2	β	R2	β	R2	β	R2
Diet Quality Index-Waist circumference	−0.138*	0.019	−0.140*	0.217	−0.018	0.000	0.076	0.129
Diet Quality Index-Body Mass Index	−0.135**	0.018	−0.129*	0.272	−0.016	0.000	0.049	0.154
Diet Quality Index-Total cholesterol	−0.086	0.007	−0.024	0.062	−0.045	0.002	−0.057	0.075
Diet Quality Index-HDL cholesterol	0.057	0.003	0.018	0.187	−0.004	0.000	0.016	0.080
Diet Quality Index-LDL cholesterol	−0.096	0.009	−0.062	0.069	−0.026	0.001	−0.049	0.120
Diet Quality Index-Ratio Total/HDL cholesterol	−0.097	0.009	−0.027	0.155	−0.016	0.000	−0.063	0.132
Diet Quality Index-Triglycerides	−0.024	0.001	0.068	0.074	−0.056	0.003	−0.039	0.051

*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001

Model 1: unadjusted

Model 2: adjusted for age, residual change score smoking, residual change score VO_2peakrelative and residual change waist circumference for the association with blood lipids