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Eating more plant foods may lower heart disease risk in young adults, older women: Study ANI | Updated: Aug 05, 2021 12:56 IST
Washington [US], August 5 (ANI): According to two new research studies, eating more nutritious, plant-based foods is heart-healthy at any age.
The findings of the studies were published in the Journal of the American Heart Association , an open-access journal of the American Heart Association.
In the two separate studies analysing different measures of healthy plant food consumption, researchers found that both young adults and postmenopausal women had fewer heart attacks and were less likely to develop the cardiovascular disease when they ate more healthy plant foods.
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Eating more plant foods may lower heart disease risk in young adults, older women
American Heart AssociationAugust 4, 2021 GMT
Research Highlights:
Eating a plant-centered diet during young adulthood is associated with a lower risk of heart disease in middle age, according to a long-term study with about 30 years of follow-up.
A separate study with about 15 years of follow-up found that eating more plant-based foods that have been shown to lower cholesterol, called the “Portfolio Diet”, is associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease in postmenopausal women.
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Previous studies on the associations between glycemic index and cardiovascular disease and risk have shown mixed results and have been primarily conducted in participants from high-income Western populations. To rectify this, David J.A. Jenkins, MD, PhD, of the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and fellow PURE study investigators, conducted this study.
“We have assessed the association between the glycemic index and cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in the large, international [PURE] study involving participants with a broad range of carbohydrate intakes and diverse dietary patterns. We hypothesized that such a study would be most likely to indicate th