Dietary patterns and cardiorespiratory fitness in midlife and subsequent all-cause dementia: findings from the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study

Table 3 Estimated all-cause dementia hazard ratios for DASH diet score and cardiorespiratory fitness

	M1: Age, sex, exam year	M2: M1 + smoking, education	M3: M2 + CRF	M4: M3 + caloric intake, BMI	M5: glucose, cholesterol, SBP
	HR (95% CI)
DASH diet score, per SD of continuous score	0.95 (0.90, 1.01)	0.98 (0.93, 1.04)	1.02 (0.96, 1.08)	1.02 (0.96, 1.08)	1.02 (0.96, 1.08)
Maximal cardiorespiratory fitness, per MET^a	--	--	0.94 (0.92, 0.96)	0.94 (0.92, 0.97)	0.95 (0.92, 0.97)

Abbreviations BMI: body mass index; CI: confidence interval; CRF: cardiorespiratory fitness; DASH: Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension; HR: hazard ratio; M: model; MET: metabolic equivalent of task; SBP: systolic blood pressure; SD: standard deviation
^aEstimates for maximal cardiorespiratory fitness from models 1–2 were not estimated because it was not the primary exposure of interest

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