TABLE 5.

Relative risks and 95% confidence intervals for proximal colon, distal colon, and rectal cancer sites comparing highest with lowest quintiles of diet quality indexes (quintile 5 vs. quintile 1) for the Healthy Eating Index-2005, Alternate Healthy Eating Index, Mediterranean Diet Score, and Recommended Food Score

	Multivariate model*
	Men (n = 293,615)		Women (n = 198,767)
	Relative risk	95% confidence interval	Relative risk	95% confidence interval
Healthy Eating Index-2005
Proximal	0.94	0.74, 1.19	0.83	0.61, 1.14
Distal	0.67	0.52, 0.86	0.64	0.41, 0.98
Rectal	0.56	0.43, 0.74	0.89	0.60, 1.32
Alternate Healthy Eating Index
Proximal	0.82	0.64, 1.06	0.75	0.54, 1.05
Distal	0.75	0.75, 0.96	0.93	0.59, 1.46
Rectal	0.56	0.42, 0.74	0.95	0.61, 1.48
Mediterranean Diet Score
Proximal	0.83	0.66, 1.04	0.84	0.61, 1.14
Distal	0.68	0.53, 0.86	1.18	0.76, 1.84
Rectal	0.69	0.54, 0.88	0.75	0.50, 1.21
Recommended Food Score
Proximal	0.68	0.53, 0.86	1.09	0.77, 1.53
Distal	0.76	0.59, 0.97	0.90	0.56, 1.42
Rectal	0.86	0.66, 1.11	1.03	0.64, 1.66

^*Adjusted for age, ethnicity, education, body mass index, smoking, physical activity, and energy (and menopausal hormone therapy, women only).