Table 3.

The association between CVH metrics and sarcopenia by selected subgroups

Variable	No. (%)	Intermediate or Ideal CVH OR (95% CI) *	P value	Intermediate or Ideal CVH OR (95% CI) †	P value	P for interaction
Continuous
CVH (per 1 score)	807/9326	0.77 (0.74 to 0.79)	<0.001	0.75 (0.71 to 0.79)	<0.001	–
Categories *
Poor CVH	479/3672	1 (Ref)	–	1 (Ref)	–	–
Intermediate or Ideal CVH	328/5654	0.36 (0.29 to 0.44)	<0.001	0.36 (0.26 to 0.50)	<0.001	–
Subgroup
Age
<45	211/4200	0.41 (0.31 to 0.54)	<0.001	0.38 (0.27 to 0.52)	<0.001	0.189
45–59	117/1454	0.37 (0.27 to 0.52)	<0.001	0.32 (0.19 to 0.53)	<0.001
Sex
Male	157/2721	0.33 (0.24 to 0.45)	<0.001	0.36 (0.24 to 0.53)	<0.001	0.827
Female	171/2933	0.40 (0.30 to 0.54)	<0.001	0.35 (0.21 to 0.58)	<0.001
Race
Mexican American	127/864	0.41 (0.28 to 0.60)	<0.001	0.43 (0.28 to 0.67)	<0.001	0.704
Other Hispanic	44/598	0.32 (0.18 to 0.58)	<0.001	0.37 (0.20 to 0.70)	0.003
Non-Hispanic White	80/2067	0.30 (0.22 to 0.40)	0.019	0.31 (0.17 to 0.56)	<0.001
Non-Hispanic Black	8/1001	0.15 (0.07 to 0.32)	<0.001	0.21 (0.08 to 0.50)	<0.001
Other	69/1142	0.40 (0.23 to 0.69)	0.001	0.45 (0.22 to 0.95)	0.036
Education levels
<12	179/1989	0.43 (0.33 to 0.57)	<0.001	0.49 (0.33 to 0.74)	<0.001	0.014
12	87/1863	0.39 (0.25 to 0.61)	<0.001	0.32 (0.19 to 0.54)	<0.001
>12	62/1800	0.30 (0.18 to 0.50)	<0.001	0.20 (0.10 to 0.40)	<0.001

Poor CVH: CVH metrics scores 0–7; intermediate or ideal CVH: CVH metrics scores 8–14.

*Unadjusted model.

†Analyses were adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education level, alcohol use, congestive heart failure, coronary heart disease, angina and cancer.

CVH, cardiovascular health.;