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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 10.
Published in final edited form as: Lipids. 2017 Jul 8;52(8):687–702. doi: 10.1007/s11745-017-4276-8

Table 7.

Hazard ratios (95% confidence interval) for CHD according to quartiles of dietary lipophilic index and lipids among participants with blood lipids in the cohort study (1994–2014, N = 6,188) of the Women’s Health Initiative

Quartiles of exposures
P for trendc
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

Dietary LI
   No. of CHD events/patients 198/1864 231/1666 201/1425 215/1233
   Median LI (IQR) 24.2 (2.3) 26.8 (0.9) 28.4 (0.8) 30.3 (1.5)
   Adjusted model 1a, HRs (95% CI) Ref. 1.18 (0.96, 1.45) 0.94 (0.76, 1.17) 1.35 (1.08, 1.68) <0.01
   Adjusted model 2b, HRs (95% CI) Ref. 1.19 (0.97, 1.46) 0.95 (0.77, 1.18) 1.35 (1.08, 1.68) <0.01
Triglycerides
   No. of CHD events/patients 110/1477 159/1473 255/1589 321/1649
   Median (IQR), mg/dl 62 (17) 91 (14) 123 (22) 191 (70)
   Adjusted model 1a, HRs (95% CI) Ref. 1.07 (0.83, 1.37) 1.29 (1.02, 1.63) 1.40 (1.11, 1.77) <0.01
LDL:HDL ratio
   No. of CHD events/patients 167/1497 184/1529 227/1558 267/1604
   Median (IQR) 1.4 (0.4) 2.0 (0.3) 1.6 (0.4) 3.6 (0.9)
   Adjusted model 1a, HRs (95% CI) Ref. 1.23 (0.93, 1.62) 0.85 (0.63, 1.15) 1.35 (1.00, 1.82) <0.01

BMI body mass index, CHD coronary heart disease, CI confidence intervals, HDL high-density lipoprotein, IQR interquartile range, LDL low-density lipoprotein, LI lipophilic index, HR hazard ratio

a

Adjusted for age, region, race/ethnicity, education, income, BMI, physical activity, smoking, family history of myocardial infarction/diabetes/ stroke, medication use, postmenopausal hormone use, self-reported baseline hypertension/diabetes/cancer/hypercholesterolemia/hysterectomy status, dietary alcohol, percent calories from protein and carbohydrates, and total energy

b

Model 1 plus LDL:HDL ratio

c

Test for trends was conducted by treating the median value for each quartile of LI/LL as a continuous variable