Women who adhere to a healthy, "prudent" diet decrease their risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause death, whereas women following a traditional "Western" diet increase their risk for these outcomes, shows a large US study.
The association between overall dietary patterns and mortality due to CVD and other diseases has until now remained largely unknown, the authors note.
Frank Hu (Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA) and colleagues studied 72,113 women who were free of myocardial infarction, angina, coronary artery surgery, stroke, diabetes, or cancer and followed them up from 1984 to 2002.
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