Fig. 3

Association between serum carotenoid mixtures with mortality among MetS patients in BKMR. Overall risk (95% CI) of serum carotenoid levels on all-cause (A), CVD (B), cancer (C), and other (D) mortality when comparing all the serum carotenoids at different percentiles with their median level. Univariate exposure of all-cause (E), CVD (F), cancer (G), and other (H) mortality at 95% confidence intervals comparing the changes in each exposure from the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles when the remaining exposures are fixed at the similar percentiles. Models were adjusted for age, gender, race, BMI, PA, smoking, drinking, comorbidity status, HEI, supplement use, and medication use. BMI: body mass index. PA: physical activity. HEI: healthy eating index