Higher urinary nitrate was associated with lower prevalence of congestive heart failure: results from NHANES

Table 2 Logistic regression results for relationship between urinary nitrate (log transformation) and various cardiovascular diseases

	OR (95%CI)^a	P	OR (95%CI)^b	P
Congestive heart failure	0.980 (0.976, 0.984)	< 0.001	0.651 (0.507, 0.838)	< 0.001
Coronary heart disease	0.989 (0.985, 0.993)	< 0.001	1.052 (0.776, 1.426)	0.745
Angina pectoris	0.992 (0.988, 0.996)	< 0.001	0.894 (0.720, 1.110)	0.309
Myocardial infarction	0.990 (0.985, 0.994)	< 0.001	1.076 (0.869, 1.331)	0.503

^aModel was not adjusted by any covariate
^bModel was adjusted by age, gender, race/ethnicity, poverty income ratio, cotinine, BMI, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and diabetes (poverty income ratio: Q1: ≤ 1, Q2: > 1; cotinine: Q1: ≤ 0.01, Q2: 0.01–10, Q3: > 10; BMI: Q1: < 25; Q2: 25–30; Q3: > 30)

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