Table 4 Summary of longitudinal associations between diet score category and inflammatory markers in a general adult population
| Diet score category | Inflammatory marker assessed |
Improved inflammatory status n |
No change n |
Reduced inflammatory status n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National recommendations | Adiponectin | 1 | 4 | |
| CRP | 4 | 6 | ||
| IL-6 | 1 | 1 | ||
| TNF-α | 1 | |||
| National recommendation totals | 6 | 12 | ||
| Healthy | Adiponectin | 2 | ||
| CRP | 2 | 3 | ||
| Healthy totals | 4 | 3 | ||
| Mediterranean | Adiponectin | 2 | ||
| CRP | 3 | |||
| Mediterranean totals | 3 | 2 | ||
| Inflammatory indices | CRP | 3 | 1 | |
| Inflammatory indices totals | 3 | 1 |