Table 3.

Correlation among indexes of adherence to the Mediterranean diet

	jMD score (correlation p coefficient)	T-MDS (correlation p coefficient)	MedDQI (correlation p coefficient)	S-MDS (correlation p coefficient)
jMD score	1	–	–	–
T-MDS	0.490 (<0.001)	1	–	–
MedDQI	0.287 (<0.001)	0.457 (<0.001)	1	–
S-MDS	0.184 (<0.001)	0.460 (<0.001)	0.405 (<0.001)	1

jMD, Mediterranean diet score adapted to Japan; T-MDS, Mediterranean diet scale proposed by Trichopoulou et al. (22); MedDQI, Mediterranean Dietary Quality Index proposed by Gerber (23); S-MDS, Mediterranean diet score proposed by Sofi et al. (24).