Healthy Eating Patterns and Risk of Total and Cause-Specific Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The current Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend multiple healthy eating patterns. However, few studies have examined the associations of adherence to different dietary patterns with long-term risk of total and cause-specific mortality.

Objective

To examine the associations of dietary scores for 4 healthy eating patterns with risk of total and cause-specific mortality.

Design, setting, and participants

This prospective cohort study included initially healthy women from the Nurses' Health Study (NHS; 1984-2020) and men from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS; 1986-2020).

Exposures

Healthy Eating Index 2015 (HEI-2015), Alternate Mediterranean Diet (AMED) score, Healthful Plant-based Diet Index (HPDI), and Alternate Healthy Eating Inde

SUBMITTER: Shan Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9857813 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature