Mortality Associated with Healthy Eating Index Components and an Empirical-Scores Healthy Eating Index in a Cohort of Postmenopausal Women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Studies of diet and chronic disease include a recent important focus on dietary patterns. Patterns are typically defined by listing dietary variables and by totaling scores that reflect whether consumption is encouraged or discouraged for listed variables. However, precision may be improved by including total energy consumption among the dietary variables and by scoring dietary variables empirically.

Objectives

To relate Healthy Eating Index (HEI)-2010 components and total energy intake to all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Women's Health Initiative (WHI) cohorts and to define and evaluate an associated Empirical-Scores Healthy Eating Index (E-HEI).

Methods

Analyses are conducted in WHI cohorts (n = 67,247) of healthy postmenopausal women, aged 50-79

SUBMITTER: Prentice RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9644175 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature