Diet Quality as Assessed by the Healthy Eating Index, Alternate Healthy Eating Index, Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension Score, and Health Outcomes: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies

• Published in: Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Vol. 118; no. 1; pp. 74 - 100.e11
• Main Authors: Schwingshackl, Lukas, Bogensberger, Berit, Hoffmann, Georg
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.01.2018
• Subjects: Alternate Healthy Eating Index; cardiovascular diseases; cohort studies; confidence interval; Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet; Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension diet; Health status; healthy diet; Healthy Eating Index; Meta-analysis; mortality; neoplasms; neurodegenerative diseases; noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus; nutritional adequacy; risk; risk reduction; systematic review; Healthy Eating Index; Alternate Healthy Eating Index; Health status; Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet; Meta-analysis

Diets of the highest quality have been associated with a significantly lower risk of noncommunicable diseases. It was the aim of this study to update a previous systematic review investigating the associations of diet quality as assessed by the Healthy Eating Index (HEI), Alternate Healthy Eating In...