Ultra-processed food intake and animal-based food intake and mortality in the Adventist Health Study-2.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Both ultra-processed foods and animal-derived foods have been associated with mortality in some studies.

Objectives

We aimed to examine the association of 2 dietary factors (ultra-processed foods and animal-based foods), adjusted for each other, with all-cause mortality.

Methods

The setting is an observational prospective cohort study in North America, recruited from Seventh-day Adventist churches, comprised of 95,597 men and women, yielding an analytic sample of 77,437 participants after exclusions. The exposure of interest was diet measured by FFQ, in particular 2 dietary factors: 1) proportion of dietary energy from ultra-processed foods (other processing levels and specific substitutions in some models) and 2) proportion of dietary energy from animal-ba

SUBMITTER: Orlich MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9170476 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature