Diet quality and cardiometabolic health in breast cancer survivors: the Pathways Study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Breast cancer (BC) survivors experience higher rates of cardiometabolic conditions, partly due to treatment. While healthy eating decreases the risk of these conditions in the general population, its association in BC survivors is unclear.

Methods

We included 3415 participants from the Pathways Study, a prospective cohort of women diagnosed with invasive BC between 2005 and 2013 and followed through 2021. Concordance of food intakes from food frequency questionnaires was estimated for five healthy eating patterns at BC diagnosis: Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH), healthy Plant-based Dietary Index (hPDI), 2020 Healthy Eating Index (HEI), American Cancer Society nutrition guidelines (ACS), and the alternate Mediterranean Diet Index (aMED). Incident hypert

SUBMITTER: Ergas IJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11952977 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature