Diet quality in young adulthood and sleep at midlife: a prospective analysis in the Bogalusa Heart Study

Nutrition Journal

Table 4 Risk ratios for insomnia by baseline scores of components of the alternate healthy eating index

	Quintile of AHEI-2010 component score at baseline (2001–2002)
Component of AHEI-2010 dietary pattern	Q1	Q2 ^a	Q3 ^a	Q4 ^a	Q5 ^a	p for trend	per one unit increase ^a
1. Fruits	1.00	1.02 (0.77, 1.34)	1.04 (0.80, 1.35)	1.14 (0.98, 1.34)	0.80 (0.61, 1.04)	0.082	0.97 (0.93, 1.01)
2. Vegetables (not potatoes)	1.00	0.97 (0.77, 1.23)	0.96 (0.79, 1.17)	0.97 (0.77, 1.24)	0.80 (0.56, 1.15)	0.176	0.96 (0.92, 1.01)
3. Nuts and legumes	1.00	1.27 (1.01, 1.60) ^*	1.22 (0.92, 1.61)	1.51 (1.14, 2.00) ^**	1.63 (1.31, 2.04) ^***	< 0.0001	1.05 (1.02, 1.08) ^***
4. Whole grains	1.00	0.87 (0.74, 1.02)	0.74 (0.58, 0.96) ^*	0.81 (0.65, 1.01)	0.56 (0.41, 0.77) ^***	0.003	0.91 (0.87, 0.95) ^***
5. Long chain (n-3) fats	1.00	1.11 (0.89, 1.38)	0.87 (0.67, 1.13)	1.06 (0.90, 1.25)	0.73 (0.58, 0.93) ^**	0.004	0.95 (0.91, 0.98) ^**
6. Polyunsaturated fats	1.00	0.85 (0.64, 1.13)	0.89 (0.66, 1.19)	0.89 (0.67, 1.18)	0.83 (0.64, 1.07)	0.204	0.96 (0.91, 1.01)
7. Sugar sweetened beverages and fruit juice ^b	1.00	0.86 (0.58, 1.27)	0.79 (0.62, 1.01)	NA	NA	0.069	0.97 (0.93, 1.00)
8. Red and processed meats	1.00	0.87 (0.68, 1.11)	0.97 (0.75, 1.27)	0.89 (0.61, 1.30)	0.80 ()0.54, 1.19)	0.371	0.98 (0.94, 1.03)
9. Sodium	1.00	1.08 (0.86, 1.36)	1.03 (0.80, 1.31)	0.97 (0.70, 1.34)	1.15 (0.88, 1.51)	0.435	1.02 (0.99, 1.05)
10. Alcohol ^b	1.00	0.82 (0.48, 1.38)	0.66 (0.45, 0.97) ^*	0.76 (0.50, 1.16)	NA	0.213	0.98 (0.96, 1.01)

^a. Risk Ratio (95% confidence interval)
^b. There are only three groups (tertiles) for sugar sweetened beverages and four groups (quartiles) for alcohol
^*p < 0.05, ^**p < 0.01, ^***p < 0.001
Models adjusted for: total energy intake, age, sex, race, education (any college or higher), employed (full or part time), income category, number of people in house, spouse lives in house, total population of census tract, ICE of census tract, smoking status (never, current, former), drinking status (non-, occasional, regular drinker), caffeine intake (mg/d), depressive symptoms (CES-D ≥ 16), body mass index (kg/m²), physical active when not at work (4 or 5 [active or very active] on 5-point self-rating scale)

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