Long-term diet and risk of SARS -CoV-2 infection and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) severity
Yue et al.,
Long-term diet and risk of SARS -CoV-2 infection and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) severity,
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, doi:10.1093/ajcn/nqac219
Analysis of 42,935 participants showing lower risk of COVID-19 with healthier diets. Risk of severe cases was also lower with healthier diets, while not reaching statistical significance. Severity results are only provided with diet indices as a continuous variable.
risk of case, 19.0% lower, OR 0.81, p = 0.008, Q4 vs. Q1, model 3 + IPW, AHEI, RR approximated with OR.
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risk of case, 21.0% lower, OR 0.79, p = 0.006, Q4 vs. Q1, model 3 + IPW, AMED, RR approximated with OR.
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risk of case, 28.6% lower, OR 0.71, p < 0.001, inverted to make OR<1 favor higher quality diet, Q1 vs. Q4, model 3 + IPW, EDIH, RR approximated with OR.
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risk of case, 11.5% lower, OR 0.88, p = 0.10, inverted to make OR<1 favor higher quality diet, Q1 vs. Q4, model 3 + IPW, EDIP, RR approximated with OR.
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Yue et al., 9 Aug 2022, retrospective, multiple countries, peer-reviewed, survey, 11 authors.
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Abstract: Long-term diet and risk of SARS -CoV-2 infection and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID19) severity
Yiyang Yue, MS1, Wenjie Ma, ScD 2,3, Emma K. Accorsi, PhD4, Ming Ding, ScD1, Frank Hu,
ScD1,5,7, Janet Rich Edwards, ScD5,7, Stephanie A. Smith-Warner, PhD1,5, Shilpa N.
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Bhupathiraju, PhD1,6
Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard
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Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School,
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Medical School, Boston, MA
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Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan
School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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Boston, MA
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s
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Division of Women’s Health, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and
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Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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Corresponding author: Shilpa N Bhupathiraju (sbhupath@hsph.harvard.edu)
Running head: Diet and risk of COVID-19 infection and severity
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MD, PhD1,5,6, Walter C. Willett, MD, PhD1,5,6, Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH2,3,5,6, Qi Sun, MD,
Abbreviations
AHEI, Alternate Healthy Eating Index; AMED, alternative Mediterranean Diet; BMI, body mass
index; COVID-19, Coronavirus Disease 2019; EDIH, Empirical Dietary Index for
Follow-up Study; IPW, inverse probability weighting; MET, metabolic equivalent of tasks; NHS,
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Nurses’ Health Study; PPE, personal protective equipment; Q, quartile
Hyperinsulinemia; EDIP, empirical dietary inflammatory pattern; HPFS, Health Professionals
ABSTRACT
Background
The role of diet on COVID-19 is emerging.
We included 42,935 participants aged 55 to 99 years in two ongoing cohort studies, Nurses’
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Health Study II and Health Professionals Follow-up Study, who completed a series of COVID19 surveys in 2020 and 2021. Using data from food frequency questionnaires prior to COVID-19,
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we assessed diet quality using the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI)-2010, the alternative
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Mediterranean Diet (AMED) score, an Empirical Dietary Index for Hyperinsulinemia (EDIH),
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and an Empirical Dietary Inflammatory Pattern (EDIP). We calculated multivariable adjusted
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odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) for SARS-CoV-2 infection and
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severity of COVID-19 after controlling for demographic, medical, and lifestyle factors.
Results
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Among 19,754 participants tested for SARS-CoV-2, 1,941 participants reported a positive result.
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Of these, 1,327 reported symptoms needing assistance and another 109 were hospitalized.
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Healthier diet, represented by higher AHEI-2010 and AMED scores and lower EDIH and EDIP
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scores, were associated..
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