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Potato and french fry consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes in women
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Background Potatoes, a high glycemic form of carbohydrate, are hypothesized to increase insulin resistance and risk of type 2 diabetes.Objective The objective was to examine prospectively the relation between potato consumption and the risk of type 2 diabetes.Design We conducted a prospective study of 84,555 women in the Nurses' Health Study. At baseline, the women were aged 34-59 y, had no history of chronic disease, and completed a validated food-frequency questionnaire. The participants were followed for 20 y with repeated assessment of diet.Results We documented 4496 new cases of type 2 diabetes. Potato and french fry consumption were both positively associated with risk of type 2 diabetes after adjustment for age and dietary and nondietary factors. The multivariate relative risk (RR) in a comparison between the highest and the lowest quintile of potato intake was 1.14 (95% CI: 1.02, 1.26; P for trend = 0.009). The multivariate RR in a comparison between the highest and the lowest quintile of french fry intake was 1.21 (95% CI: 1.09, 1.33; P for trend < 0.0001). The RR of type 2 diabetes was 1.18 (95% CI: 1.03, 1.35) for 1 daily serving of potatoes and 1.16 (95% CI: 1.05, 1.29) for 2 weekly servings of french fries. The RR of type 2 diabetes for substituting 1 serving potatoes/d for 1 serving whole grains/d was 1.30 (95% CI: 1.08, 1.57). The association between potato consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes was more pronounced in obese women.Conclusions Our findings suggest a modest positive association between the consumption of potatoes and the risk of type 2 diabetes in women. This association was more pronounced when potatoes were substituted for whole grains.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Halton, T. L., Willett, W. C., Liu, S., Manson, J. E., Stampfer, M. J., & Hu, F. B.
- Affiliations
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Corresponding author
- Halton, Thomas L
- Venue
- The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2006-02
- Volume
- 83
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 284-290
- ISSN
- 0002-9165 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1909149403
- Semantic Scholar
- 2650991ed912104333198a961e8eaf71b0f9a1d3
- Cited by
- 257
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- 43
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- FWCI
- 8.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01dk058845-13, DK58845, CA 87969)
- National Cancer Institute (CA-87969, P01CA087969)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (P30 DK 040561, DK58845)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Food composition and properties
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Potato Plant Research
- Keywords
- potato consumption, French fries, type 2 diabetes, diabetes risk, women, insulin resistance, glycemic load, obesity, Nurses' Health Study
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Cooking, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Dietary Carbohydrates, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Health Surveys, Humans, Middle Aged, Obesity, Solanum tuberosum, Prospective Studies, Surveys and Questionnaires, Risk Factors, Cohort Studies, Multivariate Analysis, Confidence Intervals, Odds Ratio
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