Dietary inflammatory index, risk of incident hypertension, and effect modification from BMI

Nutrition Journal

Table 2 BMI adjusted and multivariate adjusted cox proportional hazard models for incident hypertension risk based on distributions of adapted dietary inflammatory index

Quintiles of DII	Q1 (< − 2.7) (n = 9331)	Q2 (− 2.7 - -0.4) (n = 9330)	Q3 (− 0.4–1.3) (n = 9330)	Q4 (1.3–3.0) (n = 9330)	Q5 (> 3.0) (n = 9331)	P for trend
Cases	2697	2699	2664	2555	2568
Person years	175,873	176,292	176,738	177,652	177,712
M0	ref	1.00 [0.95: 1.06]	0.99 [0.94: 1.04]	0.95 [0.90: 1.01]	0.97 [0.92: 1.03]	0.11
M1	ref	1.00 [0.94: 1.05]	0.98 [0.93: 1.03]	0.94 [0.89: 0.99]	0.96 [0.91: 1.01]	0.02
M2	ref	1.00 [0.94: 1.05]	0.98 [0.93: 1.04]	0.95 [0.89: 1.00]	0.97 [0.91: 1.03]	0.10
M3	ref	1.03 [0.98: 1.09]	1.04 [0.99: 1.10]	1.03 [0.97: 1.08]	1.07 [1.01: 1.13]	0.003

M0 with age as timescale; M1 adjusted for physical activity, smoking, family history of CVD, and education level; M2 M1 + diabetes and dyslipidaemia at baseline; M3 M2 + BMI

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