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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
Volume 157, Issue 11, Pages 980-988Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwg077
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cardiovascular diseases; diet; diet surveys; mortality; neoplasms; nutrition; nutrition assessment; nutrition surveys
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The Diet Quality Index (DQI) was developed to measure overall dietary patterns and to predict chronic disease risk. This study examined associations between DQI and short-term all-cause, all-circulatory-disease, and all-cancer mortality in the American Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Study 11 Nutrition Cohort, a cohort of US adults aged 50-79 years enrolled in a prospective study. After 4 years of follow-up (1992-1996), there were 869 deaths among 63,109 women and 1,736 deaths among 52,724 men. All study participants reported being disease free at baseline in 1992-1993. In age-adjusted Cox models, a higher DOI, which was indicative of a poorer quality diet, was positively related to all-cause and all-circulatory-disease mortality rates in both women and men and to cancer mortality in men only. However, in fully adjusted Cox models, only circulatory disease mortality was clearly positively related to DQI and only in women (medium-low-quality diet vs. highest-quality diet: rate ratio = 1.86, 95% confidence interval: 1.19, 2.89). Although trend tests indicated significant positive relations between DOI and all-cause mortality, effects were small (rate ratios less than or equal to 1.31), and confidence intervals were wide, generally including 1.0. DOI was unrelated to cancer mortality. As currently constructed, the DOI may have limited ability to predict mortality.
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