highly significantp < 0.001
Race interaction: highly significant (overall p < 0.001).
Race interaction: highly significant (overall p < 0.001).
Race interaction: borderline significant (overall p = 0.05).
2 β-carotene (β-carotene) The OR value for the lower intake group (Lower intake) showed a potentially protective trend (OR = 0.816, 95% CI: 0.645–1.031) but did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.087).
Non-Hispanic Black highest intake: near significance (OR = 0.474, p = 0.166) but confidence interval contains 1 (CI: 0.162–1.389). 4 Lycopene Sex interaction: not significant (overall p = 0.216).
In contrast, lycopene showed a trend toward higher risk in the higher intake group among Non-Hispanic Black (OR = 4.99), which is highly consistent with the high prevalence of diabetic nephropathy among African-Americans as characterized by the U.