Table 4.

Modified Mediterranean Diet food groups (from the mMDS questionnaire) association with plasma and urine biomarkers at baseline and 6 months follow-up in the pilot study of the Feeding Americas Bravest.

	Baseline (n = 48)				6 Months Follow-Up (n = 41)
	β	SE	p	R2	β	SE	p	R2
Olive oil with
CRP (ngmL)	−582.06	402.82	0.157	0.10	676.12	365.72	0.077	0.13
TNF-α (pgmL)	−0.257	0.066	<0.001	0.31	−0.012	0.114	0.919	0.002
IL-6 (pgmL)	−0.156	0.543	0.776	0.03	0.653	0.611	0.296	0.069
MUFA (%)	−0.518	0.623	0.412	0.08	0.123	0.648	0.852	0.004
Oleic acid (%)	−0.437	0.586	0.460	0.08	0.124	0.545	0.822	0.009
Omega 3 (%)	0.663	0.218	0.004	0.24	0.491	0.272	0.083	0.120
Omega 6 (%)	−0.162	0.850	0.850	0.00	−0.396	0.918	0.670	0.026
Omega 9 (%)	−0.556	0.635	0.387	0.06	0.090	0.650	0.891	0.002
Hydroxytyrosol (ppm)	0.038	0.019	0.058	0.11	0.005	0.020	0.790	0.014
Tyrosol (ppm)	0.003	0.007	0.721	0.01	−0.007	0.004	0.081	0.221
Olive oil as oil most frequently used with
CRP (ngmL)	−504.39	660.75	0.450	0.06	131.02	582.42	0.824	0.003
TNF-α (pgmL)	−0.13320	0.12563	0.296	0.048	−0.37219	0.15281	0.023	0.199
IL-6 (pgmL)	0.61535	0.83815	0.468	0.039	0.70396	0.92189	0.453	0.048
MUFA (%)	0.131	1.011	0.898	0.06	0.696	0.957	0.475	0.024
Oleic acid (%)	0.036	0.948	0.970	0.06	0.463	0.808	0.572	0.020
Omega 3 (%)	0.89628	0.36287	0.019	0.183	0.20528	0.42999	0.637	0.010
Omega 6 (%)	−1.33274	1.34777	0.330	0.027	−0.42694	1.37174	0.758	0.022
Omega 9 (%)	0.10684	1.03085	0.918	0.047	0.56453	0.96316	0.563	0.016
Hydroxytyrosol (ppm)	0.02982	0.03239	0.364	0.031	−0.05012	0.02876	0.097	0.141
Tyrosol (ppm)	−0.01744	0.01281	0.185	0.067	−0.00006872	0.00715	0.992	0.063
Fast Food with
TNF-α (pgmL)	0.02919	0.05935	0.626	0.024	0.11427	0.08914	0.212	0.066
IL-6 (pgmL)	−0.16980	0.38495	0.662	0.028	−0.03013	0.50372	0.953	0.025
SFA (%)	0.25249	0.23367	0.287	0.124	−0.40098	0.38530	0.308	0.076
Trans fat (%)	0.02804	0.02014	0.173	0.069	−0.07291	0.11761	0.541	0.107
Red and processed meats with
TNF-α (pgmL)	−0.01099	0.03673	0.766	0.020	0.06130	0.03965	0.135	0.092
IL-6 (pgmL)	0.10635	0.23932	0.660	0.028	−0.05615	0.22705	0.807	0.027
SFA (%)	0.16769	0.14391	0.252	0.129	−0.04400	0.17753	0.806	0.036
Omega 3 (%)	−0.22092	0.10696	0.046	0.145	−0.17799	0.09880	0.084	0.119
Omega 6 (%)	0.17853	0.39255	0.652	0.006	0.15885	0.33333	0.638	0.027
Nuts with
TNF-α (pgmL)	0.00314	0.05098	0.951	0.018	0.05098	0.05688	0.379	0.034
IL-6 (pgmL)	−0.41093	0.31558	0.202	0.072	−0.13178	0.31502	0.679	0.031
Omega 3 (%)	0.16628	0.15453	0.289	0.071	0.03149	0.14626	0.831	0.002
Omega 6 (%)	−0.15244	0.54522	0.781	0.002	0.76669	0.43868	0.093	0.129
Linoleic acid (%)	0.02443	0.49517	0.961	0.004	0.97259	0.49793	0.063	0.172
n-6 Linolenic acid (%)	−0.03366	0.02793	0.236	0.041	−0.01286	0.03494	0.716	0.006
Fish with
TNF-α (pgmL)	0.02446	0.04830	0.616	0.025	−0.07476	0.07311	0.317	0.043
IL-6 (pgmL)	−0.70823	0.29396	0.022	0.172	−0.00409	0.40835	0.992	0.024
Omega 3 (%)	0.27259	0.14209	0.063	0.132	0.17512	0.18567	0.355	0.036
Omega 6	−0.20296	0.51794	0.698	0.004	1.01657	0.56466	0.084	0.135
Alcoholic beverages with
TNF-α (pgmL)	0.03047	0.15146	0.842	0.019	−0.09094	0.17645	0.611	0.012
IL-6 (pgmL)	−0.99832	0.98883	0.320	0.053	0.03948	0.97002	0.968	0.024
Hydroxytyrosol (ppm)	−0.02219	0.03874	0.571	0.017	−0.08268	0.02863	0.009	0.302
Tyrosol (ppm)	0.00420	0.01449	0.774	0.004	−0.00624	0.00872	0.484	0.090

Models adjusted for group assignment. CRP: C-Reactive Protein; MUFA: Monounsaturated fatty acids; TNF-α: Tumor necrosis factor; IL-6: Interleukin 6; SFA: Saturated Fatty Acids; mMDS: modified Mediterranean Diet Score.