2017-02-01
Diet-dependent acid load and type 2 diabetes: pooled results from three prospective cohort studies
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Diabetologia: clinical and experimental diabetes and metabolism , Volume 60 - Issue 2 p. 270- 279
Aims/hypothesis: Studies suggest a potential link between low-grade metabolic acidosis and type 2 diabetes. A western dietary pattern increases daily acid load but the association between diet-dependent acid load and type 2 diabetes is still unclear. This study aimed to assess whether diet-dependent acid load is associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes. Methods: We examined the association between energy-adjusted net endogenous acid production (NEAP), potential renal acid load (PRAL) and animal protein-to-potassium ratio (A:P) on incident type 2 diabetes in 67,433 women from the Nurses’ Health Study, 84,310 women from the Nurses’ Health Study II and 35,743 men from the Health Professionals’ Follow-up Study who were free from type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer at baseline. Study-specific HRs were estimated using Cox proportional hazards models with time-varying covariates and were pooled using a random effects meta-analysis. Results: We documented 15,305 cases of type 2 diabetes during 4,025,131 person-years of follow-up. After adjustment for diabetes risk factors, dietary NEAP, PRAL and A:P were positively associated with type 2 diabetes (pooled HR [95% CI] for highest (Q5) vs lowest quintile (Q1): 1.29 [1.22, 1.37], ptrend <0.0001; 1.29 [1.22, 1.36], ptrend <0.0001 and 1.32 [1.24, 1.40], ptrend <0.0001 for NEAP, PRAL and A:P, respectively). These results were not fully explained by other dietary factors including glycaemic load and dietary quality (HR [95% CI] for Q5 vs Q1: 1.21 [1.09, 1.33], ptrend <0.0001; 1.19 [1.08, 1.30] and 1.26 [1.17, 1.36], ptrend <0.0001 for NEAP, PRAL and A:P, respectively). Conclusions/interpretation: This study suggests that higher diet-dependent acid load is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. This association is not fully explained by diabetes risk factors and overall diet quality.
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| doi.org/10.1007/s00125-016-4153-7, hdl.handle.net/1765/106575 | |
| Diabetologia: clinical and experimental diabetes and metabolism | |
| Organisation | Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam |
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Kiefte-de Jong, J., Li, Y. (Yanping), Chen, M. (Mu), Curhan, G., Mattei, J. (Josiemer), Malik, V.S. (Vasanti S.), … Hu, F. (2017). Diet-dependent acid load and type 2 diabetes: pooled results from three prospective cohort studies. Diabetologia: clinical and experimental diabetes and metabolism, 60(2), 270–279. doi:10.1007/s00125-016-4153-7 |
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