Table 4. Hazard ratios1 (HRs) and associated 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the association between diet patterns and cancer mortality in Whites.
| Dietary pattern | Quartile of dietary pattern | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | p Valuetrend1 | ||
| Convenience | Events | 149 | 151 | 149 | 133 | |
| Crude | – | 0.85 (0.68–1.06) | 0.71 (0.56–0.89) | 0.58 (0.46–0.73) | <0.001 | |
| Model 1 | – | 0.95 (0.76–1.19) | 0.84 (0.67–1.06) | 0.79 (0.62–1.01) | 0.2 | |
| Model 2 | – | 0.93 (0.74–1.17) | 0.81 (0.64–1.02) | 0.74 (0.57–0.95) | 0.07 | |
| Model 3 | – | 0.85 (0.67–1.08) | 0.84 (0.66–1.07) | 0.73 (0.56–0.94) | 0.1 | |
| Plant based | Events | 192 | 148 | 139 | 103 | |
| Crude | – | 0.84 (0.68–1.04) | 0.80 (0.64–0.99) | 0.61 (0.48–0.78) | <0.001 | |
| Model 1 | – | 0.74 (0.59–0.91) | 0.71 (0.57–0.89) | 0.56 (0.43–0.71) | <0.001 | |
| Model 2 | – | 0.83 (0.67–1.04) | 0.88 (0.70–1.11) | 0.72 (0.56–0.94) | 0.09 | |
| Model 3 | – | 0.79 (0.63–1.01) | 0.88 (0.69–1.12) | 0.72 (0.55–0.93) | 0.07 | |
| Sweets/fats | Events | 121 | 149 | 147 | 165 | |
| Crude | – | 1.03 (0.81–1.31) | 0.93 (0.73–1.19) | 1.07 (0.84–1.35) | 0.7 | |
| Model 1 | – | 0.91 (0.71–1.16) | 0.80 (0.63–1.02) | 0.91 (0.72–1.15) | 0.3 | |
| Model 2 | – | 0.98 (0.76–1.26) | 0.81 (0.63–1.05) | 0.91 (0.71–1.17) | 0.3 | |
| Model 3 | – | 0.95 (0.73–1.23) | 0.85 (0.65–1.11) | 0.97 (0.75–1.27) | 0.6 | |
| Southern | Events | 133 | 160 | 161 | 128 | |
| Crude | – | 1.46 (1.16–1.83) | 1.89 (1.50–2.37) | 2.27 (1.78–2.89) | <0.001 | |
| Model 1 | – | 1.37 (1.08–1.72) | 1.55 (1.23–1.97) | 1.91 (1.47–2.47) | <0.001 | |
| Model 2 | – | 1.26 (0.99–1.60) | 1.48 (1.17–1.88) | 1.59 (1.22–2.08) | 0.002 | |
| Model 3 | – | 1.30 (1.01–1.67) | 1.53 (1.19–1.97) | 1.69 (1.28–2.23) | <0.001 | |
| Alcohol/salads | Events | 105 | 149 | 171 | 157 | |
| Crude | – | 1.14 (0.89–1.46) | 1.10 (0.86–1.41) | 0.90 (0.70–1.15) | 0.2 | |
| Model 1 | – | 1.34 (1.04–1.72) | 1.44 (1.12–1.84) | 1.34 (1.04–1.74) | 0.03 | |
| Model 2 | – | 1.28 (0.99–1.66) | 1.22 (0.94–1.58) | 1.02 (0.77–1.36) | 0.1 | |
| Model 3 | – | 1.24 (0.95–1.62) | 1.25 (0.96–1.64) | 1.08 (0.81–1.45) | 0.2 | |
Bold indicates statistically significant at α ≤ 0.05.
There were 582 cancer deaths among 14,724 White 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.