Dietary flavonoids and respiratory diseases: a population-based multi-case-control study in Italian adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To analyse the associations between chronic respiratory diseases and intakes of total flavonoids and their major subclasses (flavanones, anthocyanins, flavan-3-ols, flavonols, flavones, polymers and proanthocyanidins).

Design

Multi-case-control study.

Setting

The analysis was conducted in the frame of the Genes Environment Interaction in Respiratory Diseases (GEIRD) study. The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition FFQ was used to ascertain dietary intake. Multinomial regression models adjusting for age, sex, centre, BMI, smoking habit, alcohol intake, education, total energy intake, vitamin C intake and total fruit intake were used to examine the associations between dietary exposures and the relative risk ratio (RRR) of being a case.<

SUBMITTER: Mattioli V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10200595 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature