Table 5.

Hazard ratio of diet with normal and high total cholesterol concentration for gallstone disease.

	All	Male	Female
Vegetarian with TCH < 200 mg/dL	1	1	1
Nonvegetarian with TCH < 200 mg/dL	1.72 (0.88, 3.33)	0.89 (0.32, 2.46)	2.48 (1.05, 5.88)
Vegetarian with TCH ≧ 200 mg/dL	2.20 (0.94, 5.14)	2.12 (0.50, 8.99)	2.64 (0.91, 7.65)
Nonvegetarian with TCH ≧ 200 mg/dL	2.71 (1.40, 5.21)	1.65 (0.60, 4.50)	3.81 (1.61, 9.01)

Adjusted for age, sex, education, smoking status, drinking status, sport, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, BMI, lipid-lowering medications, menopause (for female). Abbreviation: TCH, total cholesterol.