Dietary patterns and cardiometabolic diseases in 0.5 million Chinese adults: a 10-year cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The effect of the overall diet quality on cardiometabolic diseases has been well studied in the Western population. However, evidence is still in need regarding dietary patterns depicting unique Chinese dietary habits and their associations with cardiometabolic diseases.

Methods

A prospective cohort recruited around 0.5 million Chinese residents aged 30-79 years from 10 diverse survey sites during 2004-08. Dietary patterns were obtained using factor analysis based on the habitual consumption of 12 food groups collected at baseline. Among 477,465 eligible participants free of prior heart disease, stroke and cancer, linkages to multiple registries and health insurance database recorded 137,715 cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and 17,412 diabetes cases (among 451,846 no

SUBMITTER: Qin C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8418004 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature