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TUESDAY, July 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Certain dietary patterns may protect against inflammation and heart disease in adults with type 1 diabetes, according to a study presented during NUTRITION 2024, the annual meeting of the American Society for Nutrition, held from June 29 to July 2 in Chicago.<\/p>\n
Arpita Basu, Ph.D., from the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, and colleagues used data from participants in the Coronary Artery Calcification in Type 1 Diabetes study (563 participants with T1D; 692 controls) to assess longitudinal associations between healthy dietary patterns with biomarkers of inflammation and atherosclerosis.<\/p>\n
The researchers found that when adjusting for age, sex, calories, body mass index, follow-up time, blood\u00a0pressure, cholesterol, smoking status, and physical activity, Dietary Approaches to Stop\u00a0Hypertension (DASH) dietary scores were inversely associated with homocysteine in adults with and without T1D (percent change\u00a0for controls:\u00a0\u00e2\u0088\u00920.53; T1D:\u00a0\u00e2\u0088\u00920.57).\u00a0There was also an inverse relationship between DASH scores and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1\u00a0in the control group (percent change: \u00e2\u0088\u00920.99).<\/p>\n
There is an urgent need to address dietary quality in adults with type 1 diabetes,” Basu said in a statement. “In a clinical setting, assessing dietary intakes using the DASH and Mediterranean dietary checklists could be an effective way to identify gaps and improve intakes.”<\/p>\n
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