Table 4

Association of sociodemographic characteristics with the derived food patterns among 1073 participants of the Dhulikhel Heart Study

	Mixed pattern			Fast food pattern			Refined grains–meat–alcohol pattern			Solid fats and dairy pattern
	Coefficient	SE	p Value	Coefficient	SE	p Value	Coefficient	SE	p Value	Coefficient	SE	p Value
Age, years	−0.01	0.003	<0.001	−0.01	0.00	<0.001	−0.01	0.002	<0.001	0.01	0.003	<0.001
Sex
Male	Ref
Female	−0.003	0.06	0.96	0.07	0.06	0.23	−0.54	0.06	<0.001	0.19	0.06	0.003
Ethnicity
Newar	Ref
Brahmin/Chhetri	−0.15	0.09	0.10	−0.19	0.07	0.01	−0.46	0.08	<0.001	0.40	0.08	<0.001
Other	−0.07	0.13	0.59	0.01	0.10	0.91	0.004	0.11	0.97	−0.04	0.11	0.73
Religion
Non-Hindu	Ref
Hindu	0.24	0.13	0.07	0.26	0.11	0.02	−0.04	0.12	0.77	0.06	0.12	0.62
Marital status
Married	Ref
Non-married	−0.11	0.07	0.11	0.42	0.06	<0.001	−0.28	0.07	<0.001	−0.02	0.07	0.79
Education, years	−0.004	0.01	0.59	0.04	0.01	<0.001	−0.01	0.01	0.43	0.03	0.01	0.001
Annual income, US$	0.00001	0.00001	0.21	−0.00001	0.00001	0.26	0.000008	0.000009	0.37	−0.00001	0.00001	0.43

The coefficients are adjusted for each of the other sociodemographic characteristics in the table.