Table 4.

Female 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	0.300	0.049–1.820	0.190	0.282	0.045–1.759	0.175	0.288	0.041–2.010	0.209	0.122	0.012–1.267	0.078
3th Tertile	0.923	0.213–4.003	0.915	0.821	0.154–4.384	0.817	1.310	0.195–8.810	0.781	4.135	0.302–56.555	0.288
Potassium excretion tertile
1st Tertile	1	(Reference)			(Reference)			(Reference)			(Reference)
2nd Tertile	2.727	0.557–13.365	0.216	2.381	0.462–12.287	0.300	4.767	0.550–41.276	0.156	5.272	0.435–63.932	0.192
3th Tertile	1.000	0.173–5.772	1.000	0.987	0.170–5.740	0.988	1.388	0.176–10.914	0.756	1.749	0.178–17.163	0.631
Sodium-to-potassium ratio excretion tertile
1st Tertile	1	(Reference)			(Reference)			(Reference)			(Reference)
2nd Tertile	1.795	0.356–9.054	0.479	1.685	0.314–9.044	0.543	1.396	0.238–8.182	0.711	1.099	0.155–7.791	0.925
3th Tertile	1.333	0.251–7.084	0.736	0.915	0.132–6.344	0.928	0.945	0.120–7.462	0.957	1.800	0.178–18.173	0.618

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.