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CompletedNCT03328546

Dietary Patterns and Health Outcomes (Cardiovascular, Metabolic, Endocrine, Neurological, Skeletal Muscular, Cancer)

Status
Completed
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
116,671 (actual)
Sponsor
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) · Academic / Other
Sex
Female
Age
24 Years – 44 Years
Healthy volunteers
Accepted

Summary

To study, prospectively, the association between dietary patterns and risk of health outcomes (cardiovascular, metabolic, endocrine, neurological, skeletal muscular, cancer) in cohort study of 116,671 women age 24 to 44 years at baseline in 1989 (the Nurses' Health Study II; NHS II).

Detailed description

Health status and lifestyle information was self-reported on a questionnaire at baseline, and on questionnaires distributed to participants biennially thereafter. Dietary intake data was collected in form of a comprehensive, 131-item food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), distributed among participants every four years. The response rate remained over 90%. Dietary data was validated using biomarkers, health status data using medical records. Dietary pattern scores were derived from FFQs using cumulative average whenever possible from years preceding the outcomes. Multivariable Cox proportional hazards models were used to evaluate associations between dietary pattern scores and health outcomes, except in case of pregnancy complications (such as gestational diabetes mellitus/GDM and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy/HDPs) where multivariable logistic regression models with generalized estimating equations, with an exchangeable working correlation structure to account for correlated outcomes between pregnancies.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
OTHERDietary intakeDietary intake converted into dietary pattern scores.

Timeline

Start date
1989-01-01
Primary completion
2017-04-01
Completion
2018-04-01
First posted
2017-11-01
Last updated
2023-04-14

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03328546. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.