Associations of Diet Quality and All-Cause Mortality Across Levels of Cardiometabolic Health and Disease:A 7.6-Year Prospective Analysis From the Dutch Lifelines Cohort

OBJECTIVE: To simultaneously investigate the association of diet quality and all-cause mortality in groups with varying cardiometabolic diseases (CMDs) at baseline. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: From the population-based Lifelines cohort, 40,892 non-underweight participants aged ≥50 years with data on diet quality and confounding factors were included (enrollment 2006-2013). From food-frequency questionnaire data, tertiles of the Lifelines Diet Score were calculated (T1 = poorest, T3 = best diet quality). Four CMD categories were defined: 1) CMD free, 2) type 2 diabetes, 3) one cardiovascular d... Mehr ...