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Dietary Patterns and Cardiometabolic Outcomes in Diabetes: A Summary of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

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Kahleova, Hana, Salas-Salvadó, Jordi, Rahelić, Dario, Kendall, Cyril WC, Rembert, Emilie, Sievenpiper, John L·2019·Nutrients

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The Diabetes and Nutrition Study Group (DNSG) of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) conducted a review of existing systematic reviews and meta-analyses to explain the relationship between different dietary patterns and patient-important cardiometabolic outcomes. To update the clinical practice guidelines for nutrition therapy in the prevention and management of diabetes, we summarize the evidence from these evidence syntheses for the Mediterranean, Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH), Portfolio, Nordic, liquid meal replacement, and vegetarian dietary patterns. The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) approach was used to assess the quality of evidence. We summarized the evidence for disease incidence outcomes and risk factor outcomes using risk ratios (RRs) and mean differences (MDs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs), respectively. The Mediterranean diet showed a cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence (RR: 0.62; 95%CI, 0.50, 0.78), and non-significant CVD mortality (RR: 0.67; 95%CI, 0.45, 1.00) benefit. The DASH dietary pattern improved cardiometabolic risk factors (P < 0.05) and was associated with the decreased incidence of CVD (RR, 0.80; 95%CI, 0.76, 0.85). Vegetarian dietary patterns were associated with improved cardiometabolic risk factors (P < 0.05) and the reduced incidence (0.72; 95%CI: 0.61, 0.85) and mortality (RR, 0.78; 95%CI, 0.69, 0.88) of coronary heart disease. The Portfolio dietary pattern improved cardiometabolic risk factors and reduced estimated 10-year coronary heart disease (CHD) risk by 13% (−1.34% (95%CI, −2.19 to −0.49)). The Nordic dietary pattern was correlated with decreased CVD (0.93 (95%CI, 0.88, 0.99)) and stroke incidence (0.87 (95%CI, 0.77, 0.97)) and, along with liquid meal replacements, improved cardiometabolic risk factors (P < 0.05). The evidence was assessed as low to moderate certainty for most dietary patterns and outcome pairs. Current evidence suggests that the Mediterranean, DASH, Portfolio, Nordic, liquid meal replacement and vegetarian dietary patterns have cardiometabolic advantages in populations inclusive of diabetes.

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Authors
Kahleova, H., Salas-Salvadó, J., Rahelić, D., Kendall, C. W., Rembert, E., & Sievenpiper, J. L.
Affiliations
  • Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Washington, DC 20016, USA
  • CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBER Obn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
  • University of Zagreb (HR)
  • St. Michael's Hospital (CA)
  • Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (US)
Corresponding author
Sievenpiper, John L
Venue
Nutrients
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2019-09-13
Volume
11
Issue
9
Pages
2209
ISSN
2072-6643 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2972375267
Cited by
114
References
72
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2.00
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journal article
Language
en
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  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Rovira & Virgili repository (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • TSpace (University of Toronto) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Almond Board of California
  • Dairy Farmers of Canada
  • Canadian Cardiovascular Society
  • Diabetes Canada
  • European Food Safety Authority
  • Glycemic Index Foundation
  • Alberta Pulse Growers Commission
  • Loblaw Companies Limited
  • Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
  • Physicians' Services Incorporated Foundation
  • Society for Endocrinology
  • University of Toronto
  • European Association for the Study of Diabetes
  • International Nut and Dried Fruit Council
  • International Sweeteners Association
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research
  • Banting and Best Diabetes Centre, University of Toronto
  • Obesity Canada
  • Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Diet and metabolism studies
Keywords
dietary habits, diabetes mellitus, cardiometabolic outcomes, Mediterranean diet, DASH diet, Portfolio diet, Nordic diet, vegetarian diet, cardiovascular disease incidence, cardiovascular mortality, coronary artery disease, stroke, cardiometabolic risk factors, nutritional therapy, GRADE quality of evidence, risk of bias assessment, heterogeneity, publication bias, reporting bias
MeSH terms
Dietary Approaches To Stop Hypertension, Systematic Reviews as Topic, Cardiovascular Diseases, Diabetes Mellitus, Diet, Humans, Metabolic Diseases, Risk Factors, Scandinavian and Nordic Countries, Diet, Vegetarian, Meta-Analysis as Topic, MEDLINE, Diet, Mediterranean, Nutrition Therapy, Diabetes Complications

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