Fruit and vegetable intake and cardiovascular risk factors in people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

The cardiovascular benefit of increasing fruit and vegetable (F&V) intake following diagnosis of diabetes remains unknown. We aimed to describe how quantity and variety of F&V intake, and plasma vitamin C, change after diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and examine whether these changes are associated with improvements in cardiovascular risk factors.

Subjects/methods

A total of 401 individuals with screen-detected diabetes from the ADDITION-Cambridge study were followed up over 5 years. F&V intake was assessed by food frequency questionnaire and plasma vitamin C at baseline, at 1 year and at 5 years. Linear mixed models were used to estimate associations of changes in quantity and variety of F&V intake, and plasma vitamin C, with cardiovascular risk factors a

SUBMITTER: Lamb MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5218580 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature