Table 5.

The associations between E-DII score quartiles and Framingham risk score (FRS) among the 276 women participants ^a.

	Q1 −4.89 to −3.43	Q2 −3.42 to −1.63	Q3 −1.62 to 1.16	Q4 1.17 to 4.45	p for Linear Trend b
FRS	−1.6 ± 5.0	0.6 ± 4.6	0.2 ± 3.7	2.0 ± 4.6	<0.001

Abbreviations: DII: dietary inflammatory index; Q: quartile. ^a Data are means ± SDs; ^b p values for linear trend were calculated using linear regression model.