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Association of changes in diet quality with total and cause-specific mortality

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Sotos-Prieto, Mercedes, Bhupathiraju, Shilpa N., Mattei, Josiemer, Fung, Teresa T., Li, Yanping, Pan, An, Willett, Walter C., Rimm, Eric B. +1 more·2017·New England Journal of Medicine

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BACKGROUND: Few studies have evaluated the relationship between changes in diet quality over time and the risk of death. METHODS: We used Cox proportional-hazards models to calculate adjusted hazard ratios for total and cause-specific mortality among 47,994 women in the Nurses' Health Study and 25,745 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study from 1998 through 2010. Changes in diet quality over the preceding 12 years (1986-1998) were assessed with the use of the Alternate Healthy Eating Index-2010 score, the Alternate Mediterranean Diet score, and the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet score. RESULTS: The pooled hazard ratios for all-cause mortality among participants who had the greatest improvement in diet quality (13 to 33% improvement), as compared with those who had a relatively stable diet quality (0 to 3% improvement), in the 12-year period were the following: 0.91 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.85 to 0.97) according to changes in the Alternate Healthy Eating Index score, 0.84 (95 CI%, 0.78 to 0.91) according to changes in the Alternate Mediterranean Diet score, and 0.89 (95% CI, 0.84 to 0.95) according to changes in the DASH score. A 20-percentile increase in diet scores (indicating an improved quality of diet) was significantly associated with a reduction in total mortality of 8 to 17% with the use of the three diet indexes and a 7 to 15% reduction in the risk of death from cardiovascular disease with the use of the Alternate Healthy Eating Index and Alternate Mediterranean Diet. Among participants who maintained a high-quality diet over a 12-year period, the risk of death from any cause was significantly lower - by 14% (95% CI, 8 to 19) when assessed with the Alternate Healthy Eating Index score, 11% (95% CI, 5 to 18) when assessed with the Alternate Mediterranean Diet score, and 9% (95% CI, 2 to 15) when assessed with the DASH score - than the risk among participants with consistently low diet scores over time. CONCLUSIONS: Improved diet quality over 12 years was consistently associated with a decreased risk of death. (Funded by the National Institutes of Health.).

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Sotos-Prieto, M., Bhupathiraju, S. N., Mattei, J., Fung, T. T., Li, Y., Pan, A., Willett, W. C., Rimm, E. B., & Hu, F. B.
Affiliations
Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
Venue
New England Journal of Medicine
Published
2017-07-13
Volume
377
Issue
2
Pages
143-153
ISSN
  • 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
  • 1533-4406
OpenAlex
W2734661169
Cited by
466
References
37
Citations by year
2026: 27 · 2025: 38 · 2024: 45 · 2023: 55 · 2022: 47 · 2021: 76 · 2020: 66 · 2019: 46 · 2018: 56 · 2017: 10
FWCI
45.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • New England Journal of Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (5k01hl120951-05)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL060712, K01‐HL120951, R01HL035464, R01HL034594, R01HL088521)
  • National Cancer Institute (P01CA087969, P01CA055075, UM1CA186107, UM1CA167552)
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (P30DK046200)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
Keywords
diet quality, dietary change over time, all-cause mortality, cause-specific mortality, cardiovascular mortality, Alternative Healthy Eating Index, alternate Mediterranean diet, DASH diet, diet quality index, Nurses' Health Study, Health Professionals Follow-up Study, men and women comparison, diet and longevity, diet and disease prevention, diet and cancer prevention
MeSH terms
Diet, Healthy, Adult, Aged, Cause of Death, Diet, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Risk, Multivariate Analysis, Proportional Hazards Models

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