ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2016
Adolescent Diet Quality and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors and Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Middle-Aged Women.
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- The burden of psychological distress and unhealthy dietary behaviours among 222,401 school-going adolescents from 61 countries.Scientific reports · 2023Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Text Message Interventions for Weight Management in Adolescents: Systematic Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Pooled it
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- Trajectories of adherence to an obesogenic dietary pattern and changes in diet quality, food intake, and adiposity during adolescence.Nutrition journal · 2025Trial
- Acceptability and Feasibility of Best Practice School Lunches by Elementary School-Aged Children in a Serve Setting: A Randomized Crossover Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Trial
- Gut Microbiome-Hormone Interactions and Precision Fermentation in the Prevention of Early Cardiovascular Risk in Adolescents.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Adolescence as a key developmental window for nutrition promotion and cardiometabolic disease prevention.npj metabolic health and disease · 2025Review
- Dietary intake and quality for young adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa: Status and influencing factors.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- Interpersonal determinants of diet quality and eating behaviors in people aged 13-30 years: A systematic scoping review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Article
- Influence of consuming coffee and other beverages in adolescence on risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood.European journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Incorporating Cardiovascular Risk Assessment into Adolescent Reproductive Health and Primary Care Visits.Journal of pediatric and adolescent gynecology · 2024Article
- Social epidemiology of the Mediterranean-dietary approaches to stop hypertension intervention for neurodegenerative delay (MIND) diet among early adolescents: the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.Pediatric research · 2024Article
- Feasibility of Using an Artificial Intelligence-based Telephone Application for Dietary Assessment and Nudging to Improve the Quality of Food Choices of Female Adolescents in Vietnam: Evidence from a Randomized Pilot Study.Current developments in nutrition · 2024Article
- Exploring the changing association between parental and adolescent fruit and vegetable intakes, from age 10 to 30 years.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
- Lifestyle Behaviors of Childhood and Adolescence: Contributing Factors, Health Consequences, and Potential Interventions.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2024Review
- The impact of sodium reduction on overall nutrient content in Child and Adult Care Food Program meals.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- The Scope of Practice for Primary Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Expanded to Advanced Practice Providers: What Does the Data Show?Current cardiology reports · 2023Review
- Association Between Birthplace and Time in the United States With Diet Quality in US Adolescents: Findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007 to 2018.The Journal of nutrition · 2022Article
- Risk factors of overweight/obesity-related lifestyles in university students: Results from the EHU12/24 study.The British journal of nutrition · 2022Observational
- Relationship between vigorous physical activity and health care costs among adolescents: ABCD Growth Study.BMC pediatrics · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundPrimary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) focuses on treatment of risk factors, including hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes mellitus. We investigated whether a healthy diet in adolescence prevents development of clinical risk factors or incidence of CVD in adulthood. METHODS AND
resultsWe examined the time to the first development of ≥1 clinical risk factor (hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, or type 2 diabetes mellitus) or CVD in relation to a high school Alternative Healthy Eating Index (HS-AHEI) within the Nurses' Health Study II. Among those who completed a food frequency questionnaire about their high school diet and adult diet (mean age 42 years), 27 406 women free of clinical risk factors and 42 112 women free of CVD in 1998 were followed to June 2011. Hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% CIs were adjusted for potential confounders in high school and adulthood. We documented 11 542 first diagnoses of clinical risk factors and 423 CVD events. The HS-AHEI was associated with a lower rate of risk factors (HR highest versus lowest quintiles 0.82; 95% CI, 0.77-0.87 [P trend <0.001]), was inversely associated with risk of developing ≥1 clinical risk factor in women with a low, medium, and high AHEI score during adulthood (HR high HS-AHEI/high adult AHEI versus low/low 0.79 [95% CI, 0.74-0.85]), but was not statistically significantly associated with incident CVD.
conclusionsA healthy diet during adolescence is associated with lower risk of developing CVD risk factors. As diet tracks throughout life, and adult diet prevents CVD, healthy dietary habits that begin early are important for primordial prevention of CVD.
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