Table 3. Hazard ratios1 (HRs) and associated 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the association between diet patterns and cancer mortality in Blacks.
| Dietary pattern | Quartile of dietary pattern | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | p Valuetrend1 | ||
| Convenience | Events | 106 | 75 | 64 | 46 | |
| Crude | – | 0.87 (0.65–1.17) | 1.00 (0.73–1.36) | 0.86 (0.61–1.21) | 0.7 | |
| Model 1 | – | 1.02 (0.76–1.38) | 1.20 (0.87–1.64) | 1.07 (0.75–1.52) | 0.7 | |
| Model 2 | – | 0.96 (0.71–1.31) | 1.17 (0.85–1.61) | 1.04 (0.72–1.50) | 0.7 | |
| Model 3 | – | 0.93 (0.67–1.28) | 1.10 (0.79–1.54) | 0.92 (0.62–1.36) | 0.8 | |
| Plant based | Events | 64 | 72 | 72 | 83 | |
| Crude | – | 0.89 (0.64–1.25) | 0.86 (0.61–1.20) | 0.91 (0.66–1.27) | 0.8 | |
| Model 1 | – | 0.80 (0.57–1.12) | 0.77 (0.55–1.08) | 0.84 (0.60–1.17) | 0.4 | |
| Model 2 | – | 0.83 (0.58–1.18) | 0.86 (0.60–1.22) | 1.03 (0.73–1.45) | 0.5 | |
| Model 3 | – | 0.87 (0.60–1.25) | 0.94 (0.65–1.36) | 1.00 (0.69–1.45) | 0.8 | |
| Sweets/fats | Events | 85 | 66 | 80 | 60 | |
| Crude | – | 1.05 (0.76–1.44) | 1.51 (1.12–2.05) | 1.17 (0.84–1.63) | 0.04 | |
| Model 1 | – | 0.98 (0.71–1.35) | 1.36 (1.00–1.85) | 1.06 (0.76–1.48) | 0.1 | |
| Model 2 | – | 1.01 (0.72–1.41) | 1.40 (1.02–1.93) | 1.04 (0.73–1.46) | 0.1 | |
| Model 3 | – | 1.04 (0.74–1.47) | 1.32 (0.95–1.84) | 0.92 (0.63–1.33) | 0.2 | |
| Southern | Events | 13 | 40 | 81 | 157 | |
| Crude | – | 1.28 (0.69–2.40) | 1.56 (0.87–2.80) | 2.07 (1.18–3.65) | 0.004 | |
| Model 1 | – | 1.22 (0.65–2.29) | 1.34 (0.74–2.41) | 1.67 (0.94–2.97) | 0.1 | |
| Model 2 | – | 1.37 (0.70–2.67) | 1.40 (0.74–2.65) | 1.74 (0.93–3.25) | 0.2 | |
| Model 3 | – | 1.61 (0.78–3.34) | 1.55 (0.77–3.12) | 1.92 (0.97–3.83) | 0.2 | |
| Alcohol/salads | Events | 101 | 83 | 68 | 39 | |
| Crude | – | 1.08 (0.81–1.44) | 1.24 (0.91–1.69) | 0.97 (0.67–1.41) | 0.5 | |
| Model 1 | – | 1.19 (0.89–1.59) | 1.36 (1.00–1.87) | 1.19 (0.81–1.73) | 0.3 | |
| Model 2 | – | 1.16 (0.86–1.57) | 1.24 (0.90–1.72) | 1.04 (0.69–1.55) | 0.5 | |
| Model 3 | – | 1.13 (0.82–1.54) | 1.16 (0.82–1.64) | 1.01 (0.66–1.54) | 0.8 | |
Bold indicates statistically significant at α ≤ 0.05.
There were 291 cancer deaths among 7,317 Black REGARDS participants.
Model 1 adjusted for sociodemographics (i.e., age, sex, education, income and region).
Model 2 is additionally adjusted for health behaviors (i.e., smoking status, alcohol use and physical activity).
Model 3 is additionally adjusted for chronic medical conditions (i.e., chronic lung disease, coronary artery disease, diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, myocardial infarction, obesity, peripheral artery disease and stroke).
1
Estimated using Cox proportional hazards model.
(–) Q1 is reference group.