Diet Quality and Biomarker Profiles Related to Chronic Disease Prevention: The Multiethnic Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT: Objective: To understand how diet quality affects chronic disease etiology, the associations of 4 a priori diet quality indices with blood levels of lipid-soluble micronutrients and biomarkers of inflammation, lipid, and glucose metabolism were examined in 5 ethnic groups.Methods: In a cross-sectional design, the Adiposity Phenotype Study, a subset of the Multiethnic Cohort in Hawaii and Los Angeles, recruited participants of white, African American, Native Hawaiian, Japanese American, and Latino ancestry. A total of 896 men and 910 women completed a validated quantitative food frequency questionnaire and anthropometric measurements and donated a fasting blood sample. Using general linear models, covariate-adjusted mean levels of lipid-soluble micronutrients (total car

SUBMITTER: Guillermo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6952587 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature