ReviewMolecular nutrition & food research2017
Association between dietary inflammatory index and inflammatory markers in the HELENA study.
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- Dietary inflammatory index and risk of major digestive tract cancers: a GRADE-assessed systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis.BMC cancer · 2026Pooled it
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- The Association between Dietary Inflammatory Potential and Urologic Cancers: A Meta-analysis.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Pooled it
- Association between dietary inflammatory index and oral cancer risk: A systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Pooled it
- Associations of dietary inflammatory index with metabolic syndrome and its components: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Public health nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Associations of Dietary Intake on Biological Markers of Inflammation in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2021Pooled it
- Dietary inflammatory index and the risk of prostate cancer: a dose-response meta-analysis.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2020Pooled it
- Dietary inflammatory index potentially increases blood pressure and markers of glucose homeostasis among adults: findings from an updated systematic review and meta-analysis.Public health nutrition · 2020Pooled it
- Meta-analysis of the association between dietary inflammatory index (DII) and upper aerodigestive tract cancer risk.Medicine · 2020Pooled it
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- Diet-Associated Inflammation Modulates Inflammation and WNT Signaling in the Rectal Mucosa, and the Response to Supplementation with Dietary Fiber.Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2021Trial
- The Inflammatory Potential of the Diet at Midlife Is Associated with Later Healthy Aging in French Adults.The Journal of nutrition · 2018Trial
- Association Between the Dietary Inflammatory Index and Cardiorenal Anemia Syndrome: Evidence From NHANES and Related-Phenotype Exploration in KNHANES.Food science & nutrition · 2026Article
- Clustering of Unhealthy Diets, Inflammation Levels, and Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Adolescents: A Longitudinal Study.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Association between food-based dietary inflammatory index and dental health: results from Bandare-Kong Non-Communicable Disease (BKNCD) cohort.BMC oral health · 2026Article
- Dietary Inflammatory Potential and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in School-Aged Adolescents.Pediatric obesity · 2026Article
- Diet Quality and Dementia Risk in Older Adults With Alzheimer Pathology.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Pro-Inflammatory Dietary Patterns Are Associated With Atopic but Not Non-Atopic Dermatitis in Asian Adults: Evidence From a Cross-Sectional Study.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundPrevious research has shown that diet is associated with low-grade systemic inflammation among adults. However, no study has yet been conducted to explore the association between inflammatory potential of diet and low-grade systemic inflammation among adolescents whose dietary behavior may be different from adults. METHODS AND
resultsWe examine the predictive ability of 24-h recall-derived dietary inflammatory index (DII) scores on inflammation among 532 European adolescents in the HELENA cross-sectional study. The DII is a literature-derived dietary index developed to predict inflammation. The DII was calculated per 1000 calories and was tested against C-reactive protein, ILs-1,2,4,10, TNF-α, ICAM, vascular cell adhesion molecule (VCAM), and IFN-γ. All inflammatory markers had nonnormal distributions and therefore were log transformed. Analyses were performed using multivariable linear regression, adjusting for age, sex, city, BMI, smoking, and physical activity. Pro-inflammatory diet (higher DII scores) was associated with increased levels of various inflammatory markers: TNF-α, IL-1, 2, IFN-γ, and vascular cell adhesion molecule (b
conclusionThese results reinforce the fact that diet, as a whole, plays an important role in modifying inflammation in adolescents.
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