ArticleDiabetes care2011
Diet-quality scores and the risk of type 2 diabetes in men.
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150 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Adherence to Mediterranean Diet and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: An Updated Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-analysis.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Pooled it
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- Association between Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: An Updated Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Pooled it
- Mediterranean dietary pattern and the risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.European journal of nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Effectiveness of weight management interventions for adults delivered in primary care: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2022Pooled it
- Egg consumption, overall diet quality, and risk of type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease: A pooling project of US prospective cohorts.Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2021Pooled it
- DASH Dietary Pattern and Cardiometabolic Outcomes: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.Nutrients · 2019Pooled it
- Evaluating Mediterranean diet and risk of chronic disease in cohort studies: an umbrella review of meta-analyses.European journal of epidemiology · 2018Pooled it
- Adherence to a Mediterranean diet and risk of diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Public health nutrition · 2015Pooled it
- Which diet for prevention of type 2 diabetes? A meta-analysis of prospective studies.Endocrine · 2014Pooled it
- Identification of blood biomarkers of a healthy dietary pattern as facilitated by cluster analysis in patients from the MEDDINI study: a pilot randomised trial.Journal of nutritional science · 2026Trial
- Yearly attained adherence to Mediterranean diet and incidence of diabetes in a large randomized trial.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2023Trial
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- Association between Diet Quality and Frailty Prevalence in the Physicians' Health Study.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2020Trial
- Impact of a Worksite Diabetes Prevention Intervention on Diet Quality and Social Cognitive Influences of Health Behavior: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2016Trial
- Cell phone intervention for you (CITY): A randomized, controlled trial of behavioral weight loss intervention for young adults using mobile technology.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2015Trial
- Adherence in a 1-year whole foods eating pattern intervention with healthy postmenopausal women.Public health nutrition · 2014Trial
- Associations of the FTO rs9939609 and the MC4R rs17782313 polymorphisms with type 2 diabetes are modulated by diet, being higher when adherence to the Mediterranean diet pattern is low.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2012Trial
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Abstract
objectiveTo 1) compare associations of diet-quality scores, which were inversely associated with cardiovascular disease, with incident type 2 diabetes and 2) test for differences in absolute-risk reduction across various strata. RESEARCH DESIGN AND
methodsMen from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, who were initially free of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or cancer (n = 41,615), were followed for ≤ 20 years. The Healthy Eating Index (HEI) 2005, the alternative HEI (aHEI) the Recommended Food Score, the alternative Mediterranean Diet (aMED) Score, and the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Score were calculated from food-frequency questionnaires. Cox proportional hazard models with time-varying covariates were used to assess risk by quintiles and continuous intervals.
resultsThere were 2,795 incident cases of type 2 diabetes. After multivariate adjustment, the aHEI, aMED, and DASH scores were significantly associated with reduced risk. A 1-SD increase was associated with 9-13% reduced risk (P < 0.01), and the DASH score was associated with lower risk independent of other scores. These scores were associated with lower absolute risk among those who were overweight or obese compared with normal weight (P for interaction < 0.01).
conclusionsSeveral diet-quality scores were associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes and reflect a common dietary pattern characterized by high intakes of plant-based foods such as whole grains; moderate alcohol; and low intakes of red and processed meat, sodium, sugar-sweetened beverages, and trans fat. High-quality diets may yield the greatest reduction in diabetes cases when followed by those with a high BMI.
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