Higher Global Diet Quality Score Is Inversely Associated with Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in US Women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We have developed a diet quality metric intended for global use. To assess its utility in high-income settings, an evaluation of its ability to predict chronic disease is needed.

Objectives

We aimed to prospectively examine the ability of the Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS) to predict the risk of type 2 diabetes in the United States, examine potential differences of association by age, and compare the GDQS with other diet quality scores.

Methods

Health, lifestyle, and diet information was collected from women (n = 88,520) in the Nurses' Health Study II aged 27-44 y at baseline through repeated questionnaires between 1991 and 2017. The overall GDQS consists of 25 food groups. Points are awarded for higher intake of healthy groups and lower intake of unhealt

SUBMITTER: Fung TT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8542093 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature