Relationship between adherence to diet, glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors in patients with type 1 diabetes: a nationwide survey in Brazil

Table 3 Final adjusted logistic regression model with adherence to the prescribed diet as dependent variable ^#

			Adjusted
	N	OR (95% CI)	P-value
Ethnicity			reference
NonCaucasians*	1,318
Caucasians	1,762	1.26 (1.09-1.47)	0,003
Type of *reported* diet
Other types of diet**	115	1	reference
Avoiding only sweets and sugar	1,498	1,12 (0.76 - 1.66)	0.53
Regular diet***	379	1.57 (1.02-2.41)	0.03
Carbohydrate counting	938	2.22 (1.49- 3.30)	<0.001
Glycemic index	150	1.21 (0.73-2.00)	0.44
Age
≥19 years	1,702	1	reference
13-18.9 years	802	0.60 (0.50-0.72)	<0.001
0-12.9 years	576	0.94 (0.74-1.20)	0.66
BMI	3,080	0.58 (0.94-0.98)	0.001
Number of medical clinical visits (previous year)	3,080	1.10 (1.06-1.15)	<0.001
(previous year)
Current smoker, y	135	0.58 (0.41- 0.84)	0.004

^#Missing data of 100 patients.
*African-Brazilians, Mulattos, Asians, and Native Indians.
**Other type of diet included diets like gluten free, vegetarian and hypocaloric.
***Regular diet: diet according to ADA and BDS statement (references [2, 15]).

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