Vegetable Diversity, Injurious Falls, and Fracture Risk in Older Women: A Prospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT: The importance of vegetable diversity for the risk of falling and fractures is unclear. Our objective was to examine the relationship between vegetable diversity with injurious falling and fractures leading to hospitalization in a prospective cohort of older Australian women (n = 1429, ≥70 years). Vegetable diversity was quantified by assessing the number of different vegetables consumed daily. Vegetable intake (75 g servings/day) was estimated using a validated food frequency questionnaire at baseline (1998). Over 14.5 years, injurious falls (events = 568, 39.7%), and fractures (events = 404, 28.3%) were captured using linked health records. In multivariable-adjusted Cox regression models, women with greater vegetable diversity (per increase in one different vegetable/day) had lower relat

SUBMITTER: Sim M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6115713 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature