Egg Intake and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes (ES)

Loma Linda University (LLU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Type 2 Diabetes; Heart Diseases

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03406910

2140392

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a longitudinal study that will collect demographic, anthropometric and dietary data to determine the relationships between meat and egg intake and the incidence of Type 2 Diabetes.

Full description

Subjects of the Adventist Health Study who are non-diabetic will provide demographic, anthropometric and dietary data at baseline. Meat and egg intake will be assessed with a validated quantitative food frequency intake questionnaire. The relationship between meat and egg intake and the incidence of Type 2 Diabetes will be determined using multivariate-adjusted logistic regression.

Enrollment: 55,851 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 31+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• AHS 2 Participants who filled out Hospital History Questionnaire version 3 or 5 Age > 30 years

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects with missing values in dietary variables were excluded from the analytic sample,
• missing gender
• age < 30 years
• improbable questionnaire response patterns
• extremes of BMI (less than 16 or greater than 60)
• estimated energy intake (less than 500 or greater than 4,500 kcal/d)
• existing cases of type 1 or type 2 diabetes at baseline
• inconsistent reports of T2D between HHQ version 3 and 5

Trial design

55,851 participants in 1 patient group

Seventh day Adventist adults

Description:

Seventh day Adventist adults recruited from the USA and Canada. Approximately 65% female and 35% male. Composed of participants with different dietary patterns and a wide variation in egg and meat intake ranging from non-consumptive to daily consumption.