Alternate Healthy Eating Index 2010 and risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among US women and men: prospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the association between the Alternate Healthy Eating Index 2010 (AHEI-2010)--a measure of diet quality--and the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Setting

Participants in the Nurses' Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, United States.

Participants

73,228 female nurses from 1984 to 2000 and 47,026 men from 1986 to 1998, who completed biennial questionnaires.

Main outcome measures

The primary outcome was the self report of newly diagnosed COPD. Multivariable Cox proportional hazards models were adjusted for age, physical activity, body mass index, total energy intake, smoking, second hand tobacco exposure (only in the Nurses' Health Study), race/ethnicity, ph

SUBMITTER: Varraso R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4707519 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature