Associations of dairy intake with risk of mortality in women and men: three prospective cohort studies.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the association of consumption of dairy foods with risk of total and cause specific mortality in women and men.

Design

Three prospective cohort studies with repeated measures of diet and lifestyle factors.

Setting

Nurses' Health Study, Nurses' Health Study II, and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, in the United States.

Participants

168 153 women and 49 602 men without cardiovascular disease or cancer at baseline.

Main outcome measure

Death confirmed by state vital records, the national death index, or reported by families and the postal system. During up to 32 years of follow-up, 51 438 deaths were documented, including 12 143 cardiovascular deaths and 15 120 cancer deaths. Multivariable analysis further adjusted for family h

SUBMITTER: Ding M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6880246 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature