Table 2.

Association of educational level with quintiles of the Alternate Healthy Eating Index, menuCH, Switzerland, 2014–2015.

AHEI Quintiles	Mean (SD)	Primary/Secondary vs. Tertiary
		OR (95% CI)
Healthiest	69.5 (7.1)	1.00 (reference)
Healthier	55.6 (2.8)	1.16 (0.86, 1.56)
Middle	47.2 (2.3)	1.34 (1.00, 1.80)
Unhealthier	39.5 (2.3)	1.60 (1.18, 2.15)
Unhealthiest	29.1 (4.6)	2.29 (1.68, 3.12)
P-trend a		<0.001

AHEI, Alternate Healthy Eating Index; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval. Odds ratio and 95% confidence interval adjusted for age, sex and physical activity, from ordered logistic regression, comparing likelihood of being in each quintile of the AHEI for less than university education relative to university education. ^a P-value for linear trend.