Guilt by association: Plant-based foods can be incorporated into both healthy and unhealthy plant-based diet indices associated with coronary heart disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One approach to test for differential associations between plant foods with health uses a scoring approach: foods categorized into animal or 'healthy' plant-based or 'unhealthy' plant-based groups to construct a plant-based diet index (PDI), healthy PDI (hPDI), and unhealthy PDI (uPDI).

Objective

To evaluate robustness of associations between diet indices and incident coronary heart disease (CHD) risk when recategorizing food groups in indices.

Methods

Using REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) data, we replicated a published use of the scoring approach. Using Cox proportional hazards regression, we assessed ramifications of the following on associations between diet indices and CHD risk: 1) reconfiguring foods within and among

SUBMITTER: Jamshidi-Naeini Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11230322 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature