Predictive role of the Mediterranean diet on mortality in individuals at low cardiovascular risk: a 12-year follow-up population-based cohort study

Table 3 Association of MED score as continuous variable with outcomes by Cox-regression models

MED score	All			CV risk score <10			CV risk score ≥10
Incident CV events
Number	125			47			78

	HR	95 % CI	p	HR	95 % CI	p	HR	95 % CI	p
Crude	0.83	0.73–0.93	0.002	0.80	0.66–0.98	0.03	0.85	0.73–0.99	0.04
Model 1	0.84	0.74–0.94	0.005	0.80	0.66–0.98	0.03	0.86	0.74–1.01	0.06
Model 2	0.83	0.74–0.94	0.004	0.80	0.65–0.99	0.04	0.85	0.72–0.99	0.04
Model 3	0.84	0.74–0.95	0.005	0.79	0.65–0.97	0.03	0.85	0.72–0.99	0.04
CV mortality
Number	84			34			50

	HR	95 % CI	p	HR	95 % CI	p	HR	95 % CI	p
Crude	0.83	0.71–0.96	0.01	0.75	0.59–0.95	0.02	0.89	0.73–1.08	0.24
Model 1	0.86	0.73–0.99	0.04	0.76	0.59–0.96	0.02	0.95	0.78–1.16	0.61
Model 2	0.87	0.75–1.02	0.09	0.74	0.58–0.95	0.02	0.96	0.78–1.18	0.70
Model 3	0.88	0.75–1.02	0.09	0.75	0.58–0.96	0.02	0.94	0.76–1.15	0.53
All-cause mortality
Number	220			90			130

	HR	95 % CI	p	HR	95 % CI	p	HR	95 % CI	p
Crude	0.91	0.83–0.99	0.03	0.83	0.72–0.96	0.01	0.97	0.86–1.09	0.56
Model 1	0.93	0.85–1.02	0.12	0.84	0.72–0.97	0.01	1.02	0.91–1.16	0.71
Model 2	0.94	0.85–1.10	0.17	0.84	0.72–0.97	0.02	1.02	0.90–1.15	0.75
Model 3	0.94	0.85–1.03	0.20	0.83	0.72–0.96	0.01	1.02	0.90–1.15	0.81

Model 1: adjusted for age, sex, BMI
Model 2: adjusted for age, sex, BMI, smoking habits, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, fasting glucose, total and HDL-cholesterol
Model 3: adjusted for age, sex, BMI, smoking habits, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, fasting glucose, total and HDL-cholesterol, rural area, exercise level, baseline CV risk score and education

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