ArticleDiabetologia2012
Potassium intake and risk of incident type 2 diabetes mellitus: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study.
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- Dietary Potassium Intake and Risk of Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Diet and risk of diabetic retinopathy: a systematic review.European journal of epidemiology · 2018Pooled it
- Co-Ingestion of Rice Bran Soymilk or Plain Soymilk with White Bread: Effects on the Glycemic and Insulinemic Response.Nutrients · 2018Trial
- Effects of potassium supplements on glucose metabolism in African Americans with prediabetes: a pilot trial.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2017Trial
- Potassium Measures and Their Associations with Glucose and Diabetes Risk: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).PloS one · 2016Trial
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- Can Dietary Supplements Support Muscle Function and Physical Activity? A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Sodium salt substitution for blood pressure in adults with diabetes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Article
- Associations between potassium, arterial stiffness, and risk of cardiovascular disease in the Jackson Heart Study: Potassium, arterial stiffness, and CVD risk.American journal of preventive cardiology · 2025Article
- Association between dietary potassium intake and the prevalence of gallstones in American adults: an assessment of data from the national health and nutrition examination survey.BMC gastroenterology · 2025Article
- Nutritional intake of micronutrient and macronutrient and type 2 diabetes: machine learning schemes.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- Dietary Potassium and Magnesium Intake with Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Among Rural China: the Henan Rural Cohort Study.Biological trace element research · 2024Article
- Associations between Components of Metabolic Syndrome and Demographic, Nutritional, and Lifestyle Factors.Journal of nutrition and metabolism · 2024Article
- Hypokalemia in Diabetes Mellitus Setting.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Review
- Association between Dietary Calcium and Potassium and Diabetic Retinopathy: A Cross-Sectional Retrospective Study.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Vitamin D, Calcium, Magnesium, and Potassium Consumption and Markers of Glucose Metabolism in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.Journal of the American Nutrition Association · 2022Article
- Potassium supplementation blunts the effects of high salt intake on serum retinol-binding protein 4 levels in healthy individuals.Journal of diabetes investigation · 2021Article
- Potassium intake, skeletal muscle mass, and effect modification by sex: data from the 2008-2011 KNHANES.Nutrition journal · 2020Article
- Impact of traditional risk factors for the outcomes of atrial fibrillation across race and ethnicity and sex groups.International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature · 2020Article
- Identification of Dietary Patterns Associated with Incidence of Hyperglycemia in Middle-Aged and Older Korean Adults.Nutrients · 2019Article
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Abstract
aims/hypothesisSerum potassium has been found to be a significant predictor of diabetes risk, but the effect of dietary potassium on diabetes risk is not clear. We sought to determine if dietary potassium is associated with risk of incident type 2 diabetes in young adults.
methodsWe used data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. Potassium intake was measured by (1) an average of three 24 h urinary potassium collections at the 5-year study visit, and (2) the CARDIA dietary assessment instrument at baseline. Incident type 2 diabetes cases were ascertained on the basis of use of diabetes medication and laboratory measurements. Analyses were adjusted for relevant confounders including intake of fruit and vegetables and other dietary factors.
resultsOf 1,066 participants with urinary potassium measurements, 99 (9.3%) developed diabetes over 15 years of follow-up. In multivariate models, adults in the lowest urinary potassium quintile were more than twice as likely to develop diabetes as their counterparts in the highest quintile (HR 2.45; 95% CI 1.08, 5.59). Of 4,754 participants with dietary history measurements, 373 (7.8%) developed diabetes over 20 years of follow-up. In multivariate models, African-Americans had a significantly increased risk of diabetes with lower potassium intake, which was not found in whites. CONCLUSIONS/
interpretationLow dietary potassium is associated with increased risk of incident diabetes in African-Americans. Randomised clinical trials are needed to determine if potassium supplementation, from either dietary or pharmacological sources, could reduce the risk of diabetes, particularly in higher-risk populations.
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