Dietary carbohydrate intake and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in at-risk women and men.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The quality and quantity of dietary carbohydrate intake, measured as dietary glycemic load (GL), are associated with a number of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and, in healthy young women, are related to increased high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) concentrations. Our objective was to determine if GL is related to hsCRP and other measures of CVD risk in a population of sedentary, overweight, dyslipidemic middle-aged women and men enrolled in an exercise intervention trial (STRRIDE).

Methods

This was a cross-sectional evaluation of the relationships between measures of dietary carbohydrate intake, calculated from food frequency questionnaire data, and CVD risk factors, including plasma hsCRP, measured in 171 subjects.

Results

After adjust

SUBMITTER: Huffman KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2080826 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature