ArticleBMJ global health2020
The International Diet-Health Index: a novel tool to evaluate diet quality for cardiometabolic health across countries.
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- Life-safety disparity index: a comprehensive, valid, and reliable tool to assess Chinese people's life-safety performance.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
introductionDiet is a major modifiable risk factor for cardiometabolic disease; however, interpretable measures capturing impacts of overall diet on health that can be easily used by policymakers at the global/national levels are not readily available.
methodsWe developed the International Diet-Health Index (IDHI) to measure health impacts of dietary intake across 186 countries in 2010, using age-specific and sex-specific data on country-level dietary intake, effects of dietary factors on cardiometabolic diseases and country-specific cardiometabolic disease profiles. The index encompasses the impact of 11 foods/nutrients on 12 cardiometabolic diseases, the mediation of health effects of specific dietary intakes through blood pressure and body mass index and background disease prevalence in each country-age-sex group. We decomposed the index into IDHI
resultsBy sex, women experienced smaller detrimental cardiometabolic effects of diet than men: (females IDHI
conclusionIDHI encompasses dietary intakes, health effects and country disease profiles into a single index, allowing policymakers a useful means of assessing/comparing health impacts of diet quality between populations.
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