Dietary flavonoid intake and weight maintenance: three prospective cohorts of 124,086 US men and women followed for up to 24 years.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine whether dietary intake of specific flavonoid subclasses (including flavonols, flavones, flavanones, flavan-3-ols, anthocyanins, and flavonoid polymers) is associated with weight change over time.

Design

Three prospective cohort studies.

Setting

Health professionals in the United States.

Participants

124,086 men and women participating in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS), Nurses' Health Study (NHS), and Nurses' Health Study II (NHS II).

Main outcome measure

Self reported change in weight over multiple four year time intervals between 1986 and 2011.

Results

Increased consumption of most flavonoid subclasses, including flavonols, flavan-3-ols, anthocyanins, and flavonoid polymers, was inversely associated with weig

SUBMITTER: Bertoia ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4730111 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature