Research Article
Consumption of Nuts at Midlife and Healthy Aging in Women
Table 2
Odds of healthy aging, according to frequency of total consumption of nuts at midlife in the Nurses’ Health Study.
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aLogistic regression model adjusted for age (years), education in 1992 (registered nurse, bachelor’s degree, and master or doctorate), marital status in 1996 (widowed, married, and single/separated/divorced), census tract median income (quintiles), BMI (kg/m2; <22, 22–24.9, 25–29.9, and ≥30), energy intake (quintiles of kcal/day), multivitamin use (yes/no), aspirin use (<1, 1‐2, or >2 tablets/week), pack-years of smoking (quintiles), physical activity (quintiles of METs-h/week), and physical function impairment in 2000 (yes/no). All covariates were collected in 1998 unless stated otherwise. bLogistic regression model further adjusted for Alternative Healthy Eating Index-2010 score (quintiles), excluding nuts as a component. |