Long term gluten consumption in adults without celiac disease and risk of coronary heart disease: prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Objective To examine the association of long term intake of gluten with the development of incident coronary heart disease.Design Prospective cohort study.Setting and participants 64 714 women in the Nurses' Health Study and 45 303 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study without a history of coronary heart disease who completed a 131 item semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire in 1986 that was updated every four years through 2010.Exposure Consumption of gluten, estimated from food frequency questionnaires.Main outcome measure Development of coronary heart disease (fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction).Results During 26 years of follow-up encompassing 2 273 931 person years, 2431 women and 4098 men developed coronary heart diseas

SUBMITTER: Lebwohl B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5421459 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature