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Published in final edited form as: Eur J Nutr. 2015 Jul 1;55(4):1491–1502. doi: 10.1007/s00394-015-0967-1

Table 3.

Dietary inflammatory index and mortality due to CHD, stroke, COPD and Alzheimer’s disease and unspecified dementia

	DII	DII quartiles
	Continuous	1	2	3	4	p -trend
CHD
Cases	3381	803	821	862	895
HR^a	1.12	1.00	1.09	1.17	1.34	<0.0001
95 % CI	1.07–1.16	Reference	0.98–1.20	1.06–1.29	1.20–1.49
Adjusted HRR^b	1.07	1.00	1.04	1.07	1.17	0.001
95 % CI	1.03–1.11	Reference	0.94–1.15	0.97–1.19	1.05–1.30
Stroke
Cases	1439	376	375	341	347
HR^a	1.04	1.00	1.06	0.98	1.11	0.21
95 % CI	0.98–1.10	Reference	0.92–1.22	0.84–1.14	0.94–1.30
Adjusted HR^b	1.01	1.00	1.04	0.94	1.04	0.69
95 % CI	0.95–1.08	Reference	0.90–1.20	0.81–1.09	0.88–1.22
COPD
Cases	1039	201	251	270	317
HR^a	1.36	1.00	1.38	1.62	2.27	<0.0001
95 % CI	1.27–1.46	Reference	1.14–1.66	1.34–1.96	1.86–2.76
Adjusted HR^b	1.13	1.00	1.16	1.28	1.43	0.0006
95 % CI	1.05–1.21	Reference	0.96–1.40	1.06–1.55	1.18–1.75
Alzheimer’s disease and unspecified dementia
Cases	1244	330	334	285	295
HR^a	1.00	1.00	1.07	0.92	1.05	0.98
95 % CI	0.94–1.07	Reference	0.92–1.24	0.78–1.08	0.88–1.25
Adjusted HR^b	0.99	1.00	1.06	0.91	1.03	0.73
95 % CI	0.93–1.05	Reference	0.91–1.24	0.77–1.07	0.86–1.23

Adjusted for age (continuous) and total energy intake (continuous)

Adjusted for age (continuous), BMI (continuous), smoking status (never, former, current), pack-years of smoking (continuous), HRT use (ever, never), education(<high school, high school graduate, more than high school), prevalent diabetes (yes/no), prevalent hypertension (yes/no), prevalent heart disease (yes/no), prevalent cancer (yes/no), total energy intake (continuous)