Fig. 1

Hazard Ratios (HR) of developing type 2 diabetes according to cumulative adherence to the Mediterranean diet (0 to 14 score of the MEDiterranean diet Adherence Screener or MEDAS). Multivariable adjusted hazard ratios for successive categories of the MEDAS (cumulative averages using yearly repeated measures) according to estimates adjusted only for age and sex (grey bars) or according to estimates with multivariable adjustment for age, sex, baseline smoking status (never, current, or former smoker), fasting glucose level, prevalence of dyslipidemia (yes/no) and hypertension (yes/no), total energy intake level (kcal/d), physical activity level (metabolic equivalent of min/d), education level (primary education, secondary education, academic/graduate), propensity scores for group allocation and randomized group allocated (adjacent bars in sand color). All estimates were stratified by recruitment center, and robust SEs were used. MEDAS Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener, CI confidence interval.