Healthful and Unhealthful Plant-Based Diets and Their Association with Cardiometabolic Targets in Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of a Lifestyle Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Plant-based diets are recommended in guidelines for the prevention of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases, which remain major causes of death in breast cancer survivors (BCS). Since not all plant foods are healthy, we calculated the plant-based dietary index (PDI), healthy (hPDI) and unhealthy (uPDI), and their associations with cardiometabolic targets in BCS.

Methods

Baseline dietary and cardiometabolic data were derived from 492 (median age 51, IQR 46-59) female BCS participating in a multicentric lifestyle trial conducted in Italy. Dietary data were collected with 7-day food records. PDI, hPDI, and uPDI were calculated by assigning positive scores to all plant foods, healthy plant foods or less healthy plant foods, respectively, as defined by the literature (sc

SUBMITTER: Vitale S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12694399 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature