Food Patterns, Inflammation Markers of Cardiovascular Disease Risk and Incidence of CVD

Skane University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Inflammation; Diet; Cardiovascular Disease

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01216228

MKC 2010-10-06

Details and patient eligibility

About

Health outcome studies should examine food patterns, because foods are consumed together and nutrients are metabolized jointly. To examine associations between food patterns and markers of systemic and vascular inflammation at baseline, in a population-based cohort in Malmö, Sweden, and after 13 years of follow-up food pattern associations with CVD incidence.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The "cardiovascular sub-cohort" is a random sample (i.e., 50 percent) of those who joined from November 1991 to February 1994. This group underwent additional examinations to assess carotid arteriosclerosis by ultrasound (n = 6103) and donated blood after fasting (n = 5533).

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects were excluded, either because they were using medication for diabetes mellitus or had previously been diagnosed as having diabetes mellitus.