Diet quality and carotid atherosclerosis in intermediate cardiovascular risk individuals

Nutrition Journal

Table 3 Multiple linear regression analysis: Relationship between diet quality index and carotid intima media thickness

	IMT mean			IMT maximum
	β unstandardized	95% CI	p	β unstandardized	95% CI	p
DQI (Total score)
Model 1	0.001	−0.002 to 0.004	0.435	0.001	−0.002 to 0.005	0.453
Model 2	−0.001	−0.004 to 0.001	0.327	−0.002	−0.005 to 0.002	0.358
Model 3	−0.001	−0.003 to 0.002	0.690	−0.001	−0.004 to 0.003	0.703

DQI diet quality index, IMT carotid intima media thickness
β: regression coefficient; CI: confidence interval
p: statistically significant differences (p < 0.05)
Model 1: No adjustment
Model 2: Adjusted for age and sex
Model 3: Adjusted for age, sex, level of education, smoking, physical activity, antihypertensive, antidiabetics and lipid lowering drugs
Independent variable: Diet quality index

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