The Association between Dietary Patterns and Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Adults

Table 4

Odds ratios and 95% CIs for depressive symptoms according to tertiles of dietary pattern scores.

	Prevalence rate (%)	Model 1^1		Model 2^2
		OR (95% CI)	value	OR (95% CI)	value^3
Traditional Chinese pattern
Low	9.0	Reference		Reference
Middle	12.0	1.39 (0.73-2.65)	0.318	1.50 (0.75-3.00)	0.249
High	11.0	1.30 (0.67-2.49)	0.436	1.42 (0.71-2.84)	0.324
Vegetables-fruits pattern
Low	9.8	Reference		Reference
Middle	13.2	1.53 (0.81-2.88)	0.187	1.70 (0.86-3.33)	0.126
High	9.0	0.90 (0.46-1.75)	0.755	0.96 (0.48-1.94)	0.912
Pastry-fruits pattern
Low	9.8	Reference		Reference
Middle	12.4	1.36 (0.72-2.57)	0.344	1.34 (0.68-2.64)	0.394
High	9.8	0.93 (0.48-1.81)	0.840	0.85 (0.40-1.78)	0.657
Animal food pattern
Low	7.1	Reference		Reference
Middle	11.7	1.83 (0.93-3.60)	0.078	1.94 (0.96-3.92)	0.063
High	13.2	2.30 (1.18-4.51)	0.015	2.08 (1.02-4.24)	0.043

¹Adjusted for age. ²Adjusted for age, BMI, sex, educational background, marital status, afternoon nap, drinking status, and smoking status. ³Based on the multiple logistic regression analysis, assigning ordinal numbers 1-3 to tertile categories of each dietary pattern.