Dietary fibre intake and risk of cardiovascular disease: systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate dietary fibre intake and any potential dose-response association with coronary heart disease and cardiovascular disease.

Design

Systematic review of available literature and dose-response meta-analysis of cohort studies using random effects models.

Data sources

The Cochrane Library, Medline, Medline in-process, Embase, CAB Abstracts, ISI Web of Science, BIOSIS, and hand searching.

Eligibility criteria for studies

Prospective studies reporting associations between fibre intake and coronary heart disease or cardiovascular disease, with a minimum follow-up of three years and published in English between 1 January 1990 and 6 August 2013.

Results

22 cohort study publications met inclusion criteria and reported total dietary fibre inta

SUBMITTER: Threapleton DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3898422 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature