Association between Dietary Patterns and Chronic Diseases among Chinese Adults in Baoji

Table 4

Chronic diseases prevalence rate (%) by dietary pattern.

Chronic diseases	Groups	Protein	Balanced	Beans	Prudent	Traditional
Hypertension	Q1	25.4	25.1	24.2	17.1	18.8
	Q2	19.8	20.4	19.1	22.6	19.7
	Q3	17.3	17.1	19.2	22.8	23.9
		34.0*	32.2*	17.2*	21.1*	14.7*
Coronary heart disease	Q1	4.1	4.5	4.2	3.3	3.1
	Q2	4.2	3.3	3.6	3.5	4.1
	Q3	3.5	4.0	4.1	5.1	4.6
		1.3^#	3.2^#	1.0^#	8.5*	4.8^#
Stroke	Q1	3.2	3.6	3.1	1.9	2.6
	Q2	2.5	2.2	2.5	2.3	2.7
	Q3	1.7	1.6	1.8	3.2	2.2
		7.9*	14.6*	5.6^#	5.9^#	1.0^#
Bone and joint disease	Q1	3.9	4.2	4.2	2.4	3.3
	Q2	3.1	3.1	2.8	3.3	2.9
	Q3	2.9	2.6	2.8	4.1	3.7
		2.8^#	6.7*	7.0*	7.5*	1.6^#
Neck and lumbar disease	Q1	7.3	8.0	7.7	5.4	6.8
	Q2	7.5	6.2	6.7	6.6	6.3
	Q3	4.8	5.4	5.2	7.5	6.5
		12.5*	9.3*	8.5*	5.8^#	0.3^#
Cancer	Q1	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
	Q2	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.2
	Q3	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.2
		7.4*	2.6^#	1.4^#	5.6^#	0.2^#

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