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Greek study linked diet quality with heart failure over 20 years
A study in Greece examined whether diet quality was related to heart failure over 20 years.
It followed adults from the Attica region who did not have cardiovascular disease when they joined.
Researchers assessed what participants usually ate in 2001–2002 and grouped their diets using a food-quality score.
At the 20-year follow-up, 241 of the 2,159 people with known outcomes had developed heart failure.
The researchers found an association between the starting diet scores and later heart failure, but this kind of study cannot show that diet caused the condition.
Participants with lower scores were also more likely to have factors such as higher body weight, high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol.
The findings add long-term evidence about diet and heart health, but the study does not establish a diet score as a medical guideline.
A study in Greece examined the link between diet quality and heart failure over 20 years.
Researchers followed adults who were initially free of cardiovascular disease as part of the ATTICA cohort.
Among 2,159 participants with recorded 20-year heart failure status, 241 developed the condition.
The study assessed diet at baseline in 2001–2002 using the Global Diet Quality Score.
The article reports an association between diet quality and heart failure, but the available text does not specify its direction or size.
- Who
- Researchers studied 2,159 adults in the ATTICA cohort who had recorded 20-year heart failure status.
- What
- The study examined the association between baseline diet quality and heart failure incidence over 20 years.
- When
- Baseline assessments took place in 2001–2002, with follow-up at 5, 10, and 20 years.
- Where
- The Attica region of Greece.
- Why
- To evaluate how baseline diet quality was associated with long-term heart failure incidence.
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Researchers assessed participants’ diet and health at baseline.
The cohort had a follow-up assessment.
The cohort had a follow-up assessment.
Researchers assessed heart failure status; 241 of the 2,159 participants with recorded status had developed heart failure.
- Study
- ATTICA cohort study
- Study region
- Attica, Greece
- Baseline assessments
- 2001–2002
- Participants with recorded 20-year heart failure status
- 2,159
- Heart failure cases
- 241 (11.2%)
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