Generalizability of dietary patterns associated with incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reduced rank regression (RRR) has been used to derive dietary pattern scores that predict linear combinations of disease biomarkers. The generalizability of these patterns to independent populations remains unknown.

Objective

The goal was to examine the generalizability of dietary patterns from the following prior studies using RRR to predict type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM): the Nurses' Health Study (NHS), European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Germany (EPIC), and Whitehall II Study (WS).

Design

The relative weights of food groups of each dietary pattern were used to generate each dietary pattern score in the Framingham Offspring Study (n = 2879). Each of the external scores (confirmatory scores) was examined to determine whether it co

SUBMITTER: Imamura F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2744626 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature