ArticleBMC nutrition2021
Association between milk and yogurt intake and mortality: a community-based cohort study (Yamagata study).
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- Fermented foods consumption, all-cause, and cause-specific mortality: a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- A systematic review of prospective evidence linking non-alcoholic fermented food consumption with lower mortality risk.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Yogurt consumption and risk of mortality from all causes, CVD and cancer: a comprehensive systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of cohort studies.Public health nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- Moderate full-fat and low-fat yoghurt consumption correlates with reduced mortality risk: a large-scale prospective analysis.Journal of global health · 2025Article
- Healthy Effects of Milk and Dairy Product Consumption in the Mediterranean Area and Japan.Endocrine, metabolic & immune disorders drug targets · 2024Review
- Association between Milk Intake and All-Cause Mortality among Chinese Adults: A Prospective Study.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Dietary Intake of Soy Products, Vegetables, and Dairy Products and Gastric Cancer Survival according to Histological Subtype: a Long-term Prospective Cohort Study.Journal of gastric cancer · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundDairy products are known as health-promoting foods. This study prospectively examined the association between milk and yogurt intake and mortality in a community-based population.
methodsThe study population comprised of 14,264 subjects aged 40-74 years who participated in an annual health checkup. The frequency of yogurt and milk intake was categorized as none (< 1/month), low (< 1/week), moderate (1-6/week), and high (> 1/day) intake. The association between yogurt and milk intake and total, cardiovascular, and cancer-related mortalities was determined using the Cox proportional hazards model.
resultsDuring the follow-up period, there were 265 total deaths, 40 cardiovascular deaths and 90 cancer-related deaths. Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that the total mortality in high/moderate/low yogurt intake and moderate/low milk intake groups was lower than that in none group (log-rank, P < 0.01). In the multivariate Cox proportional hazard analysis adjusted for possible confounders, the hazard ratio (HR) for total mortality significantly decreased in high/moderate yogurt intake group (HR: 0.62, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.42-0.91 for high intake, HR: 0.70, 95%CI: 0.49-0.99 for moderate intake) and moderate milk intake group (HR: 0.67, 95% CI: 0.46-0.97) compared with the none yogurt and milk intake groups. A similar association was observed for cancer-related mortality, but not for cardiovascular mortality.
conclusionsOur study showed that yogurt and milk intake was independently associated with a decrease in total and cancer-related mortalities in the Japanese population.
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