Association Between Inflammatory Diets, Circulating Markers of Inflammation, and Risk of Diverticulitis.

ABSTRACT:

Background & aims

Lifestyle and dietary risk factors for diverticulitis also have been associated with chronic inflammation. We performed a prospective study of associations among the inflammatory potential of diets, circulating markers of inflammation, and the incidence of diverticulitis.

Methods

We followed 46,418 men, initially free of diverticulitis, from 1986 through 2014 in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. We collected data on empiric dietary inflammatory pattern scores, which indicate the inflammatory potential of diets, and determined their association with the risk of incident diverticulitis using Cox proportional hazards regression. We used blood samples provided by 18,225 participants from 1993 through 1995 to conduct a nested case-control study; we used

SUBMITTER: Ma W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7310666 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature