Table 4.

Hazard ratio and 95% CIs for all-cause and cause-specific mortality according to quartiles of dietary folate intake after excluding participants with cardiovascular disease at baseline.

	Nutrient intake				Ptrend
	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
Male
All-cause mortality	Ref	0.91 (0.79~1.05)	0.93 (0.79~1.09)	0.76 (0.64~0.92)	0.034
Cardiovascular mortality	Ref	0.87 (0.64~1.17)	0.77 (0.54~1.10)	0.70 (0.48~1.03)	0.253
Cancer mortality	Ref	0.69 (0.50~0.96)	0.94 (0.67~1.32)	0.69 (0.47~1.01)	0.069
Female
All-cause mortality	Ref	0.93 (0.81~1.06)	0.81 (0.69~0.96)	0.77 (0.62~0.95)	0.019
Cardiovascular mortality	Ref	0.96 (0.71~1.29)	0.79 (0.54~1.15)	0.55 (0.32~0.95)	0.139
Cancer mortality	Ref	0.85 (0.61~1.18)	1.02 (0.71~1.47)	0.77 (0.48~1.24)	0.556

Adjusted for age, race/ethnicity, BMI, family income-poverty ratio, smoking, drinking, leisure-time physical activity, and hypertension.