No association between dietary patterns and depressive symptoms among a community-dwelling population in Japan

Table 4 Odds ratio and 95%CIs for depressive symptoms according to tertiles of dietary pattern scores

	No of cases	Minimally adjusted model	p value	Fully adjusted model	p value
Healthy dietary pattern
Low tertile	34	reference		Reference
Middle tertile	26	0.70 (0.40-1.24)	0.224	0.69 (0.39-1.24)	0.213
High tertile	37	1.03 (0.57-1.84)	0.934	1.03 (0.57-1.88)	0.920
Western dietary pattern
Low tertile	37	Reference		Reference
Middle tertile	29	0.70 (0.41-1.20)	0.192	0.71 (0.41-1.21)	0.205
High tertile	31	0.71 (0.40-1.26)	0.237	0.71 (0.39-1.27)	0.246
Bread and confectionery dietary pattern
Low tertile	31	Reference		Reference
Middle tertile	34	1.09 (0.65-1.85)	0.738	1.08 (0.64-1.84)	0.771
High tertile	32	1.03 (0.59-1.77)	0.928	1.02 (0.59-1.78)	0.941
Alcohol and accompanying dietary pattern
Low tertile	38	Reference		Reference
Middle tertile	26	0.66 (0.39-1.13)	0.133	0.67 (0.39-1.15)	0.151
High tertile	33	0.93 (0.55-1.57)	0.775	0.94 (0.55-1.59)	0.807

The minimally adjusted model was adjusted for age, gender and exercise-habit, and the fully adjusted model was further adjusted for body mass index, amount of education, marital status, current smoking, history of hypertension and diabetes mellitus.

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