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THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Higher intakes of vitamin C and carotenoids, as well as total whole grains, are associated with a lower risk for type 2 diabetes, according to two studies published online July 8 in The BMJ<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Ju-Sheng Zheng, Ph.D., from the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine in the United Kingdom, and colleagues conducted a case-cohort study involving 9,754 participants with incident type 2 diabetes and a subcohort of 13,662 individuals from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort. The researchers found that higher plasma vitamin C was associated with a reduced risk for developing type 2 diabetes in a multivariable adjusted model (hazard ratio per standard deviation, 0.82). A similar inverse association was seen for total carotenoids (hazard ratio per standard deviation, 0.75).<\/p>\n
Yang Hu, Sc.D., from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, and colleagues examined the associations between intake of total and individual whole grain foods and type 2 diabetes using data from the Nurses’ Health Study, Nurses’ Health Study II, and Health Professionals Follow-Up Study involving 158,259 women and 36,525 men. The researchers identified 18,629 participants with type 2 diabetes during 4,618,796 person-years of follow-up. Participants in the highest versus the lowest category of total whole grain consumption had a 29 percent lower rate of type 2 diabetes after adjustment for lifestyle and dietary risk factors.<\/p>\n
“These findings provide further support for the current recommendations that promote increased consumption of whole grain as part of a healthy diet for the prevention of type 2 diabetes,” Hu and colleagues write.<\/p>\n
Several authors from the Hu study disclosed financial ties to the biopharmaceutical and nutrition industries.<\/p>\n
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