The association between dietary quality scores with C-reactive protein and novel biomarkers of inflammation platelet-activating factor and lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2: a cross-sectional study

Table 5 Multiple Linear Regression analysis stratified by year of data collection of the associations between dietary scores and PAF and Lp-PLA₂

Novel inflammatory marker/ year of data collection	DASH Index		Dairy-adjusted DASH Index		Vegetarian Lifestyle Index^a		HEIFA		MEDAS		erMedDiet score
	β	P	β	P	β	P	β	P	β	P	β	P
LogPAF2021
Model 1	0.182	0.241	0.187	0.233	0.091	0.554	0.189	0.255	0.014	0.927	0.153	0.335
Model 2	0.180	0.255	0.181	0.258	− 0.092	0.592	0.170	0.303	− 0.060	0.732	0.160	0.320
LogPAF2022
Model 1	− 0.076	0.586	− 0.067	0.629	0.146	0.318	0.147	0.320	0.024	0.860	− 0.014	0.918
Model 2	− 0.125	0.422	− 0.114	0.462	0.148	0.458	0.097	0.552	0.024	0.866	− 0.001	0.997
Lp-PLA₂2021
Model 1	− 0.200	0.187	− 0.198	0.196	− 0.135	0.369	0.043	0.794	− 0.016	0.917	− 0.062	0.691
Model 2	− 0.157	0.332	− 0.152	0.355	− 0.050	0.778	0.090	0.598	0.038	0.832	− 0.057	0.729
Lp-PLA₂2022
Model 1	− 0.042	0.756	− 0.041	0.762	− 0.167	0.243	0.021	0.887	− 0.065	0.622	− 0.082	0.538
Model 2	0.029	0.848	0.029	0.847	− 0.109	0.550	0.066	0.680	− 0.021	0.878	− 0.064	0.641

Model 1: adjusted for age and gender; Model 2: adjusted for age, gender, physical activity, waist circumference, and risk of CVD. ^aModel 2 was adjusted for age, gender, waist circumference and risk of CVD as physical activity was assessed within the score

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