Table 3.

Male odds ratios for the association between high adherence to MD and sodium, potassium, and sodium-to-potassium ratio last tertile.

	Crude Model			Model 1 1			Model 2 2			Model 3 3
	OR	95% CI	p	OR	95% CI	p	OR	95% CI	p	OR	95% CI	p
Sodium excretion tertile
1st Tertile	1	(Reference)			(Reference)			(Reference)			(Reference)
2nd Tertile	2.625	0.574–11.998	0.213	2.681	0.578–12.438	0.208	2.146	0.383–12.021	0.385	2.539	0.345–18.706	0.360
3th Tertile	0.857	0.176–4.186	0.849	0.728	0.140–3.781	0.705	0.485	0.071–3.317	0.461	0.364	0.045–2.937	0.343
Potassium excretion tertile
1st Tertile	1	(Reference)			(Reference)			(Reference)			(Reference)
2nd Tertile	2.625	0.574–11.998	0.213	2.200	0.435–11.126	0.341	2.746	0.416–18.115	0.294	5.085	0.517–50.011	0.163
3th Tertile	0.857	0.176–4.186	0.849	0.654	0.113–3.783	0.636	0.792	0.111–5.630	0.815	0.839	0.102–6.883	0.870
Sodium-to-potassium ratio excretion tertile
1st Tertile	1	(Reference)			(Reference)			(Reference)			(Reference)
2nd Tertile	2.667	0.608–11.703	0.194	2.744	0.606–12.437	0.190	3.980	0.673–23.526	0.128	3.068	0.499–18.855	0.226
3th Tertile	0.692	0.128–3.752	0.670	0.672	0.121–3.719	0.649	0.639	0.085–4.783	0.663	0.503	0.057–4.420	0.536

¹ Model 1: adjusted for age and Body Mass Index; ² Model 2: model 1, and additionally adjusted for energy intake; ³ Model 3: model 2, and additionally adjusted for hypertension, physical activity, and education. OR = Odds Ratio.