Table 5.

Associations between food pattern and risk of thyroid cancer subtypes after stratified by sex (N = 826)

Sex	Controls	Overall TC					Papillary TC
		Cases	ORa	95% CI	ORb	95% CI	Cases	ORa	95% CI	ORb	95% CI
Female (N = 627)
Starchy Foods and Desserts Pattern
Quartile 1	71	93	1.00		1.00		74	1.00		1.00
Quartile 2	76	67	0.69	0.41, 1.04	0.73	0.45, 1.18	62	0.79	0.48, 1.30	0.83	0.50, 1.37
Quartile 3	83	69	0.62	0.39, 0.99	0.71	0.44, 1.14	57	0.65	0.39, 1.06	0.73	0.44, 1.21
Quartile 4	78	90	0.78	0.49, 1.23	0.96	0.58, 1.58	79	0.85	0.52, 1.37	1.03	0.61, 1.72
Ptrendc			0.24		0.81			0.38		0.95
Fruits and Vegetables Pattern
Quartile 1	66	97	1.00		1.00		79	1.00		1.00
Quartile 2	72	82	0.86	0.54, 1.37	0.89	0.55, 1.43	72	0.93	0.57, 1.52	0.96	0.58, 1.57
Quartile 3	81	72	0.69	0.43, 1.11	0.78	0.47, 1.28	64	0.76	0.46, 1.25	0.84	0.50, 1.41
Quartile 4	89	68	0.58	0.36, 0.94	0.72	0.41, 1.27	57	0.60	0.36, 1.00	0.73	0.41, 1.32
Ptrendc			0.02		0.22			0.03		0.27
High Protein and Fat Pattern
Quartile 1	92	110	1.00		1.00		90	1.00		1.00
Quartile 2	87	74	0.62	0.40, 0.96	0.62	0.40, 0.97	60	0.61	0.38, 0.97	0.83	0.50, 1.37
Quartile 3	72	72	0.63	0.40, 1.01	0.70	0.44, 1.13	67	0.73	0.45, 1.18	0.73	0.44, 1.21
Quartile 4	57	63	0.64	0.39, 1.05	0.81	0.47, 1.40	55	0.65	0.39, 1.10	1.03	0.61, 1.72
Ptrendc			0.06		0.34			0.14		0.54
Male (N = 199)
Starchy Foods and Desserts Pattern
Quartile 1	38	9	1.00		1.00		9	1.00		1.00
Quartile 2	33	8	1.02	0.33, 3.11	0.96	0.31, 2.97	7	0.80	0.25, 2.54	0.77	0.24, 2.46
Quartile 3	25	26	4.27	1.57, 11.64	4.54	1.64, 12.54	22	3.61	1.28, 10.15	3.78	1.32, 10.79
Quartile 4	32	28	3.26	1.23, 8.64	3.75	1.34, 10.53	19	1.93	0.69, 5.34	2.13	0.72, 6.30
Ptrendc			0.003		0.003			0.05		0.05
Fruits and Vegetables Pattern
Quartile 1	43	28	1.00		1.00		21	1.00		1.00
Quartile 2	37	21	0.77	0.34, 1.73	0.76	0.34, 1.72	18	0.95	0.39, 2.30	0.95	0.39, 2.31
Quartile 3	28	15	0.93	0.38, 2.25	0.86	0.34, 2.14	12	1.18	0.45, 3.12	1.12	0.41, 3.05
Quartile 4	20	7	0.63	0.21, 1.96	0.57	0.17, 1.85	6	0.75	0.22, 2.56	0.68	0.18, 2.52
Ptrendc			0.51		0.39			0.86		0.76
High Protein and Fat Pattern
Quartile 1	17	6	1.00		1.00		6	1.00		1.00
Quartile 2	22	9	1.15	0.30, 4.36	1.17	0.31, 4.47	9	1.35	0.35, 5.16	1.39	0.36, 5.37
Quartile 3	37	24	1.83	0.57, 5.83	1.86	0.58, 5.96	17	1.44	0.43, 4.77	1.48	1.48, 4.95
Quartile 4	52	32	1.41	0.45, 4.43	1.24	0.37, 4.16	25	1.15	0.36, 3.73	0.98	0.28, 3.44
Ptrendc			0.53		0.63			0.95		0.93

^aAdjusted for age, education level, BMI, family income, alcohol consumption, and family history of thyroid cancer.

^bAdjusted for sex, age, BMI, education level, family income, alcohol consumption, family history of thyroid cancer, and total energy intake.

^cTest for trend across quartiles from logistic regression model.