Vegetarian Diet and Cardiometabolic Risk among Asian Indians in the United States

Table 3

Association of vegetarian diet to diagnosed diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and obesity in the study population.

Diabetes
	Diagnosed diabetes		Adjusted for demographics, lifestyle, and clinical factors		Metabolic syndrome		Adjusted for demographics, lifestyle, and clinical factors		Obesity		Adjusted for demographics, lifestyle, and clinical factors
	No	Yes	Odds ratio (95% CI)		No	Yes	Odds ratio (95% CI)		No	Yes	Odds ratio (95% CI)	P
Vegetarian diet
No	260	69	0.00 (referent)		201	127	0.00 (referent)		146	242	0.00 (referent)
Yes	448	105	0.55 (0.31, 0.99)	0.044	337	209	0.89 (0.58, 1.37)	0.613	86	405	0.68 (0.37, 1.23)	0.201

Age, gender, income, access to care, tobacco use, acculturation, physical activity, diet change after immigration to the US, healthy dietary habits, and family history of diabetes, Clinical factors included HDL, blood pressure, CRP, homocysteine, and lipoprotein(a).