Dietary fiber intake and mortality among survivors of myocardial infarction: prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the associations of dietary fiber after myocardial infarction (MI) and changes in dietary fiber intake from before to after MI with all cause and cardiovascular mortality.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Setting

Two large prospective cohort studies of US women and men with repeated dietary measurements: the Nurses' Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study.

Participants

2258 women and 1840 men who were free of cardiovascular disease, stroke, or cancer at enrollment, survived a first MI during follow-up, were free of stroke at the time of initial onset of MI, and provided food frequency questionnaires pre-MI and at least one post-MI.

Main outcome measures

Associations of dietary fiber post-MI and changes from before

SUBMITTER: Li S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4004785 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature