InterAct Consortium; Romaguera, D; Guevara, M; Norat, T; Langenberg, C; Forouhi, NG; Sharp, S; Slimani, N; Schulze, MB; Buijsse, B; +38 more... Buckland, G; Molina-Montes, E; Sánchez, MJ; Moreno-Iribas, MC; Bendinelli, B; Grioni, S; van der Schouw, YT; Arriola, L; Beulens, JW; Boeing, H; Clavel-Chapelon, F; Cottet, V; Crowe, FL; de Lauzon-Guillan, B; Franks, PW; Gonzalez, C; Hallmans, G; Kaaks, R; Key, TJ; Khaw, K; Nilsson, P; Overvad, K; Palla, L; Palli, D; Panico, S; Quirós, JR; Rolandsson, O; Romieu, I; Sacerdote, C; Spijkerman, AMW; Teucher, B; Tjonneland, A; Tormo, MJ; Tumino, R; van der, ADL; Feskens, EJM; Riboli, E; Wareham, NJ; (2011) Mediterranean diet and type 2 diabetes risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study: the InterAct project. Diabetes care, 34 (9). pp. 1913-1918. ISSN 0149-5992 DOI: https://doi.org/10.2337/dc11-0891
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To study the association between adherence to the Mediterranean dietary pattern (MDP) and risk of developing type 2 diabetes, across European countries. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: We established a case-cohort study including 11,994 incident type 2 diabetic case subjects and a stratified subcohort of 15,798 participants selected from a total cohort of 340,234 participants with 3.99 million person-years of follow-up, from eight European cohorts participating in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study. The relative Mediterranean diet score (rMED) (score range 0-18) was used to assess adherence to MDP on the basis of reported consumption of nine dietary components characteristic of the Mediterranean diet. Cox proportional hazards regression, modified for the case-cohort design, was used to estimate the association between rMED and risk of type 2 diabetes, adjusting for confounders. RESULTS: The multiple adjusted hazard ratios of type 2 diabetes among individuals with medium (rMED 7-10 points) and high adherence to MDP (rMED 11-18 points) were 0.93 (95% CI 0.86-1.01) and 0.88 (0.79-0.97), respectively, compared with individuals with low adherence to MDP (0-6 points) (P for trend 0.013). The association between rMED and type 2 diabetes was attenuated in people <50 years of age, in obese participants, and when the alcohol, meat, and olive oil components were excluded from the score. CONCLUSIONS: In this large prospective study, adherence to the MDP, as defined by rMED, was associated with a small reduction in the risk of developing type 2 diabetes in this European population.
Item Type | Article |
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Keywords | Anthropometry, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, epidemiology, Diet, Mediterranean, Female, Humans, Life Style, Male, Middle Aged, Prospective Studies, Socioeconomic Factors |
Faculty and Department | Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Medical Statistics |
PubMed ID | 21788627 |
ISI | 295195100005 |
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