TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schwingshackl, Lukas
A1  - Ruzanska, Ulrike Alexandra
A1  - Anton, Verena
A1  - Wallroth, Raphael
A1  - Ohla, Kathrin
A1  - Knueppel, Sven
A1  - Schulze, Matthias Bernd
A1  - Pischon, Tobias
A1  - Deutschbein, Johannes
A1  - Schenk, Liane
A1  - Warschburger, Petra
A1  - Harttig, Ulrich
A1  - Boeing, Heiner
A1  - Bergmann, Manuela M.
T1  - The NutriAct Family Study: a web-based prospective study on the epidemiological, psychological and sociological basis of food choice
JF  - BMC public health
N2  - Background: Most studies on food choice have been focussing on the individual level but familial aspects may also play an important role. This paper reports of a novel study that will focus on the familial aspects of the formation of food choice among men and women aged 50-70 years by recruiting spouses and siblings (NutriAct Family Study; NFS). Discussion: Until August 4th 2017, 4783 EPIC-Participants were contacted by mail of which 446 persons recruited 2 to 5 family members (including themselves) resulting in 1032 participants, of whom 82% had started answering or already completed the questionnaires. Of the 4337 remaining EPIC-participants who had been contacted, 1040 (24%) did not respond at all, and 3297 (76%) responded but declined, in 51% of the cases because of the request to recruit at least 2 family members in the respective age range. The developed recruitment procedures and web-based methods of data collection are capable to generate the required study population including the data on individual and inter-personal determinants which will be linkable to food choice. The information on familial links among the study participants will show the role of familial traits in midlife for the adoption of food choices supporting healthy aging.
KW  - NutriAct family study
KW  - Study protocol
KW  - Food choice
KW  - Determinants
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5814-x
SN  - 1471-2458
VL  - 18
PB  - BMC
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Galbete, Cecilia
A1  - Kröger, Janine
A1  - Jannasch, Franziska
A1  - Iqbal, Khalid
A1  - Schwingshackl, Lukas
A1  - Schwedhelm, Carolina
A1  - Weikert, Cornelia
A1  - Boeing, Heiner
A1  - Schulze, Matthias Bernd
T1  - Nordic diet, Mediterranean diet, and the risk of chronic diseases
BT  - the EPIC-Potsdam study
JF  - BMC Medicine
N2  - Background: The Mediterranean Diet (MedDiet) has been acknowledged as a healthy diet. However, its relation with risk of major chronic diseases in non-Mediterranean countries is inconclusive. The Nordic diet is proposed as an alternative across Northern Europe, although its associations with the risk of chronic diseases remain controversial. We aimed to investigate the association between the Nordic diet and the MedDiet with the risk of chronic disease (type 2 diabetes (T2D), myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and cancer) in the EPIC-Potsdam cohort. Methods: The EPIC-Potsdam cohort recruited 27,548 participants between 1994 and 1998. After exclusion of prevalent cases, we evaluated baseline adherence to a score reflecting the Nordic diet and two MedDiet scores (tMDS, reflecting the traditional MedDiet score, and the MedPyr score, reflecting the MedDiet Pyramid). Cox regression models were applied to examine the association between the diet scores and the incidence of major chronic diseases. Results: During a follow-up of 10.6 years, 1376 cases of T2D, 312 of MI, 321 of stroke, and 1618 of cancer were identified. The Nordic diet showed a statistically non-significant inverse association with incidence of MI in the overall population and of stroke in men. Adherence to the MedDiet was associated with lower incidence of T2D (HR per 1 SD 0.93, 95% CI 0.88-0.98 for the tMDS score and 0.92, 0.87-0.97 for the MedPyr score). In women, the MedPyr score was also inversely associated with MI. No association was observed for any of the scores with cancer. Conclusions: In the EPIC-Potsdam cohort, the Nordic diet showed a possible beneficial effect on MI in the overall population and for stroke in men, while both scores reflecting the MedDiet conferred lower risk of T2D in the overall population and of MI in women.
KW  - Mediterranean diet
KW  - Nordic diet
KW  - regional diets
KW  - chronic diseases
KW  - diabetes
KW  - myocardial infarction
KW  - stroke
KW  - cancer
KW  - EPIC-Potsdam study
KW  - longitudinal analysis
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1082-y
SN  - 1741-7015
VL  - 16
PB  - BMC
CY  - London
ER  -