Data
Year of publication
2020
Kind
Quantitative
Design
Cross-sectional
Classification
NOVA
Country studied
Brazil
Data
Secondary
Data collected
Two 24 hours recalls
Study setting
Hospital
Age group of participants
Adults/60+
Participant sex
Mixed
Target population
Vulnerable (cardiac patients)
Sample size
n=2,359 (participants)
Pro-inflammatory diet is associated with a high number of cardiovascular events and ultra-processed foods consumption in patients in secondary care
goal
Evaluate the association of dietary inflammatory index with occurrence of cardiovascular events, cardiometabolic risk factors and consumption of processed, ultra-processed, unprocessed or minimally processed foods and culinary ingredients.
Results
Patients in the third tertile of DII (DII > 0·91) had were more likely to have 2 (OR 1·27, 95 % CI: 1·01–1·61) and ≥ 3 (OR 1·39, 95 % CI: 1·07–1·79) cardiovascular events, with poor cardiometabolic profile. They also were more likely to consume a higher percentage of processed, ultra-processed and culinary ingredients foods consumption compared with the patients in the first DII tertile (DII ≤ 0·91).
Authors
da Silva A, Felício MB, Caldas APS, Miranda Hermsdorff HH, Bersch-Ferreira AC, Torreglosa CR, Shivappa N, Hepert JR, Weber B, Bressan J.
Log
Public Health Nutrition
DOIs