HFCS, Apple Juice, Excess Free Fructose & asthma-the FHS-OS

Luanne R DeChristopher

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma

Treatments: Other: Dietary intakes

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03189251

EFF, HFCS, asthma-the FHS-OS

Details and patient eligibility

About

Perform an exploratory analysis of association between consumption of high excess free fructose (EFF) beverages (high fructose corn syrup sweetened soft drinks, fruit drinks, apple juice) and Chronic Bronchitis (CB)/history of CB, and asthma/ history of asthma.

Enrollment: 2,657 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants in the FHS Offspring who answered questions in the FFQ about soft drinks, fruit drinks and fruit juice consumption; Participants with non-missing data for the exposures and potentially confounding variables of interest.

Exclusion criteria

• Extreme energy intake on food frequency questionnaire (defined as ≤600 kcal/day or ≥4800 kcal/day)