Association of the Mediterranean Diet With Onset of Diabetes in the Women's Health Study.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Higher Mediterranean diet (MED) intake has been associated with reduced risk of type 2 diabetes, but underlying biological mechanisms are unclear.

Objective

To characterize the relative contribution of conventional and novel biomarkers in MED-associated type 2 diabetes risk reduction in a US population.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study was conducted among 25 317 apparently healthy women. The participants with missing information regarding all traditional and novel metabolic biomarkers or those with baseline diabetes were excluded. Participants were invited for baseline assessment between September 1992 and May 1995. Data were collected from November 1992 to December 2017 and analyzed from December 2018 to December 2019.

Exposures

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SUBMITTER: Ahmad S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7677766 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature