Table 3.

Hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% CIs and corresponding P-values of the DII for different levels of adjustment for all-cause mortality, CHD, CVD and cancer mortality and incident CHD stratified by smoking status, MONICA/KORA Augsburg cohort study

	Smokers	P-value	Ex-smokers	P-value	Never-smokers	P-value
Total N for Mortality	391		557		349
All-cause Mortality	207		241		103
Model 1	1.05	0.3557	1.11	0.0352	0.95	0.4562
	(0.95–1.17)		(1.01–1.23)		(0.82–1.10)
Model 2a	1.03	0.6604	1.15	0.0311	1.05	0.6156
	(0.89–1.20)		(1.01–1.30)		(0.86–1.28)
CHD mortality	64		70		21
Model 1	0.97	0.7878	0.98	0.7924	0.98	0.9137
	(0.80–1.18)		(0.81–1.17)		(0.71–1.36)
Model 2	1.12	0.4148	0.93	0.5120	1.01	0.9804
	(0.85–1.46)		(0.73–1.17)		(0.64–1.57)
CVD mortality	91		110		43
Model 1	1.05	0.5488	1.01	0.8613	0.92	0.4721
	(0.89–1.24)		(0.87–1.18)		(0.73–1.15)
Model 2	1.16	0.1851	1.02	0.8356	0.95	0.7416
	(0.93–1.46)		(0.85–1.23)		(0.70–1.29)
Cancer mortality	75		68		32
Model 1	0.95	0.5703	1.22	0.0411	0.87	0.3078
	(0.80–1.13)		(1.01–1.47)		(0.67–1.14)
Model 2	0.85	0.1700	1.30	0.0307	1.08	0.6761
	(0.67–1.07)		(1.02–1.64)		(0.75–1.55)
Total N for incident CHD	382		525		345
Incident CHD	93		87		33
Model 1	1.10	0.2543	1.06	0.5078	1.15	0.2681
	(0.93–1.29)		(0.90–1.25)		(0.90–1.49)
Model 2	1.16	0.1695	1.05	0.6303	1.14	0.4455
	(0.94–1.45)		(0.85–1.30)		(0.82–1.57)

Model 1—adjusting for age and survey (S1/S3).

Model 2—additionally adjusting for BMI, place of residence, actual hypertension, education level, diabetes, physical activity, energy intake, ratio of total cholesterol and HDL cholesterol.

^aAdditionally adjusting for BMI².