ArticleEuropean journal of nutrition2020
Healthy Nordic diet and risk of disease death among men: the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study.
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- Nordic diet and chronic disease: a GRADE-assessed systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohorts and randomized controlled trials.European journal of nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Nordic dietary patterns and cardiometabolic outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies and randomised controlled trials.Diabetologia · 2022Pooled it
- Higher adherence to a Nordic diet is associated with reduced risk of mild depressive symptoms: a population-based analysis.European journal of nutrition · 2026Article
- Diet, the protective bridge connecting nutrition and cardiovascular health: A review.Food chemistry: X · 2026Review
- Associations of Fructose Consumption with Prevalence and Incidence of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease-The Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study.The Journal of nutrition · 2026Article
- Adherence to a healthy Nordic diet is associated with a lower prevalence of depressive symptoms.The British journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- Lifestyle-Related Factors for Improving Diet Quality.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Association between Baltic sea diet and healthy Nordic diet index with risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a case-control study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Endothelial dysfunction, platelet hyperactivity, hypertension, and the metabolic syndrome: molecular insights and combating strategies.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Review
- Healthy and Unhealthy Food Consumption in Relation to Quality of Life among Finnish Female Municipal Employees: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Serum n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids and risk of atrial fibrillation: the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study.European journal of nutrition · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeTo investigate the association between healthy Nordic diet and risk of disease death in middle-aged and older men from eastern Finland.
methodsA total of 1547 men aged 42-60 years and free of cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer and type 2 diabetes at baseline in 1984-1989 were included. Diet was assessed with 4-day food records at baseline and the healthy Nordic diet score was calculated based on the Baltic Sea Diet Score. The incidence of death was assessed by a computer linkage to the national cause of death register. Cox proportional hazards regression analyses were used to estimate the associations between the healthy Nordic diet score and mortality.
resultsDuring the mean follow-up of 23.6 years (SD 7.0), 576 men died due to disease: 250 due to CVD, 194 due to cancer and 132 due to other diseases. The multivariable-adjusted hazard ratios (95% confidence interval) in the lowest vs. the highest quartile of the healthy Nordic diet score were 1.27 (1.01-1.59) for any disease death (P-trend across quartiles < 0.001), 1.39 (0.99-1.97, P-trend = 0.049) for CVD death, 1.26 (0.84-1.89, P-trend = 0.316) for cancer death and 1.04 (0.65-1.68, P-trend = 0.563) for other disease deaths.
conclusionsIn this prospective population-based cohort study among middle-aged and older men, low adherence to a healthy Nordic diet was associated with a higher risk of any disease death, possibly largely attributable to higher CVD mortality.
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