Dietary Patterns and Fractures in Postmenopausal Women: Results From the Women's Health Initiative.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Considerable efforts have been undertaken to relate single nutrients to bone health. To this point, results are inconsistent. Suboptimal single nutrient intake does not occur in isolation but rather reflects a poor diet quality.

Objective

To assess the association between adherence to a diet quality index constructed on the basis of dietary recommendations or existing healthy dietary patterns and fractures in postmenopausal women.

Design, setting, and participants

Post hoc analysis was conducted of longitudinal data from 40 clinical centers throughout the United States included in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) observational study. Participants in the prospective cohort included 93 676 women who were eligible for the WHI if they were aged 50 to 79 year

SUBMITTER: Haring B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7057761 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature