Pre-stroke adherence to a Mediterranean diet pattern is associated with lower acute ischemic stroke severity: a cross-sectional analysis of a prospective hospital-register study

Table 3 Adjusted^a ordinal logistic regression model of adherence to a Mediterranean diet on increasing NIHSS admission quartiles^b

Variable	Odds Ratio	95% Confidence interval		P value
High adherence to Mediterranean diet^c	0.602	0.369	0.9828	0.042
Symptom onset to admission	0.9999	0.9998	0.9999	0.001
Cardioembolic etiology	1.963084	1.165307	3.307026	0.011
Previous dependency	4.063095	1.552344	10.63472	0.004
Diabetes Mellitus	2.029745	1.009952	4.079267	0.047
Alcohol consumption	0.5730412	0.3581713	0.9168132	0.02
Vessel occlusion	6.253156	3.650669	10.7109	< 0.0001

^aAdjusted for: Age, Diabetes Mellitus, alcohol consumption, sedentary lifestyle, previous dependency, time from symptom onset to hospital admission, vessel occlusion, body mass index, admission glucose, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, cardioembolic stroke etiology
^bNIHSS quartiles are 0–1 = q1; 2–3 = q2; 4–9 = q3; 10-maximum = q4
^cHigh adherence to Mediterranean diet = MEDAS scores 0–6

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