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SUBMITTER: Park SY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6315679 | biostudies-other | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Park Song-Yi SY Kang Minji M Wilkens Lynne R LR Shvetsov Yurii B YB Harmon Brook E BE Shivappa Nitin N Wirth Michael D MD Hébert James R JR Haiman Christopher A CA Le Marchand Loïc L Boushey Carol J CJ
Nutrients 20181201 12
Diet quality based on inflammatory potential, assessed by the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII<sup>®</sup>), has been related to mortality, but studies from racially/ethnically diverse populations are scarce. Using data from the Multiethnic Cohort Study in Hawaii and California, we investigated the association of the DII with all-cause, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer mortality, both overall and by race/ethnicity. The analysis included 150,405 African Americans, Native Hawaiians, Japanese ...[more]