Table 2.

Hazard Ratio of Incident Total HF by Quartile of Consumption of the 5 Dietary Patterns

	Total HF
Dietary Pattern	Model	Q1, HR (95% CI)	Q2, HR (95% CI)	Q3, HR (95% CI)	Q4, HR (95% CI)	p for linear trend
Plant Based		N=95	N=105	N=99	N=64
	1	1 (reference)	0.91 (0.69, 1.20)	0.82 (0.62, 1.09)	0.53 (0.38, 0.73)	<0.001
	2	1 (reference)	1.00 (0.75, 1.32)	0.95 (0.71, 1.28)	0.60 (0.42, 0.86)	0.005
	3	1 (reference)	0.98 (0.73, 1.32)	0.89 (0.65, 1.21)	0.59 (0.41, 0.86)	0.004
Convenience		N=103	N=77	N=100	N=83
	1	1 (reference)	0.85 (0.63, 1.14)	1.15 (0.86, 1.52)	1.11 (0.82, 1.50)	0.24
	2	1 (reference)	0.88 (0.65, 1.19)	1.24 (0.92, 1.66)	1.14 (0.80, 1.63)	0.26
	3	1 (reference)	0.94 (0.69, 1.30)	1.39 (1.02, 1.90)	1.21 (0.83, 1.77)	0.17
Alcohol and Salads		N=119	N=76	N=96	N=72
	1	1 (reference)	0.69 (0.52, 0.93)	0.89 (0.68, 1.17)	0.72 (0.53, 0.97)	0.10
	2	1 (reference)	0.74 (0.55, 0.99)	0.98 (0.74, 1.30)	0.85 (0.62, 1.17)	0.61
	3	1 (reference)	0.74 (0.54, 1.00)	0.92 (0.68, 1.24)	0.83 (0.59, 1.16)	0.45
Sweets		N=93	N=86	N=94	N=90
	1	1 (reference)	0.86 (0.64, 1.16)	0.94 (0.71, 1.26)	0.96 (0.72, 1.29)	0.99
	2	1 (reference)	0.83 (0.62, 1.12)	0.83 (0.61, 1.14)	0.73 (0.51, 1.05)	0.11
	3	1 (reference)	0.78 (0.57, 1.06)	0.86 (0.62, 1.19)	0.76 (0.51, 1.11)	0.24
Southern		N=60	N=87	N=93	N=123
	1	1 (reference)	1.46 (1.05, 2.03)	1.56 (1.11, 2.17)	2.35 (1.68, 3.29)	<0.001
	2	1 (reference)	1.35 (0.96, 1.88)	1.27 (0.91, 1.79)	1.72 (1.20, 2.46)	0.005
	3	1 (reference)	1.24 (0.88, 1.76)	1.02 (0.71, 1.45)	1.32 (0.90, 1.93)	0.24

Model 1 adjusts for age, sex, and race

Model 2 adjusts for factors in model 1 plus education, household income, and region, total energy intake, smoking, physical activity and sodium intake

Model 3 adjusts for factors in model 2 plus BMI, waist circumference, hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, atrial fibrillation, eGFR, ACR