Joint association of meal frequency and diet quality with metabolic syndrome in Iranian adults

BMC Nutrition

Table 3 Relationship between interaction of meal, EO and snack frequency, meal time and FQS with MetS

		Meal frequency* FQS	P trend	Snack frequency*FQS	P trend	EO frequency*FQS	P trend	B Time*FQS	P trend	L Time*FQS	P trend	D Time*FQS	P trend
MetS	Crude	1.03(0.91,1.17)	0.59	1.08(0.99,1.18)	0.06	1.16(1.03,1.30)	0.01*	1.03(0.90,1.17)	0.65	1.02(0.90,1.16)	0.67	0.99(0.87,1.13)	0.98
MetS	Adjusted	1.04(0.91,1.19)	0.51	1.10(1.00, 1.21)	0.03*	1.16(1.03, 1.32)	0.01*	1.06(0.93,1.22)	0.35	1.07 (0.94,1.23)	0.28	1.02(0.89,1.17)	0.73

All values are presented as OR(CI), * is p for interaction < 0.05, adjusted for age, sex, education, occupation, income, marriage, physical activity, smoking, energy intake, using logistic regression test, FQS adjusted to energy intake, (29-37) and (18-28) categories of adjusted FQS, (06:00–08:00) and (08:01–10:40) categories of breakfast time, (12:30–13:55) and (14:00–16:00) categories of lunch time, (18:00–20:40) and (20:41–23:00) categories of dinner time, FQS and meal, EO and snack frequency, meal time independent variables, MetS dependent variable

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