Ultra-processed food intake and risk of cardiovascular disease: prospective cohort study (NutriNet-Sante).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the prospective associations between consumption of ultra-processed foods and risk of cardiovascular diseases.

Design

Population based cohort study.

Setting

NutriNet-Santé cohort, France 2009-18.

Participants

105 159 participants aged at least 18 years. Dietary intakes were collected using repeated 24 hour dietary records (5.7 for each participant on average), designed to register participants' usual consumption of 3300 food items. These foods were categorised using the NOVA classification according to degree of processing.

Main outcome measures

Associations between intake of ultra-processed food and overall risk of cardiovascular, coronary heart, and cerebrovascular diseases assessed by multivariable Cox proportional hazard models ad

SUBMITTER: Srour B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6538975 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature