Joint effects of air pollution and diet patterns on the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

ABSTRACT: Diet patterns and air pollution have been recognized as factors that affect the onset of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, the combined effects of these factors on COPD incidence remain unclear. On the basis of a large prospective cohort from UK Biobank, we explored the independent and joint effects of diet patterns and air pollution on the risk of COPD. A total of 314,226 participants from UK Biobank, who were recruited between 2006 and 2010, were included in this study. The participants were randomly divided into the training (70%) and validation (30%) sets, with the air pollution score calculated using the training set. A diet pattern score was constructed in accordance with the intake of fruits, vegetables, fish, processed meat, unprocessed red meat, whole grains,

SUBMITTER: Ye E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12015326 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature