Authors
Nitin Shivappa, James R Hebert, Ascensión Marcos, Ligia‐Esperanza Diaz, Sonia Gomez, Esther Nova, Nathalie Michels, Aline Arouca, Esther González‐Gil, Gottrand Frederic, Marcela González‐Gross, Manuel J Castillo, Yannis Manios, Mathilde Kersting, Marc J Gunter, Stefaan De Henauw, Kafatos Antonios, Kurt Widhalm, Denes Molnar, Luis Moreno, Inge Huybrechts
Publication date
2017/6
Source
Molecular nutrition & food research
Volume
61
Issue
6
Pages
1600707
Description
Background
Previous research has shown that diet is associated with low‐grade systemic inflammation among adults. However, no study has yet been conducted to explore the association between inflammatory potential of diet and low‐grade systemic inflammation among adolescents whose dietary behavior may be different from adults.
Methods and Results
We examine the predictive ability of 24‐h recall‐derived dietary inflammatory index (DII) scores on inflammation among 532 European adolescents in the HELENA cross‐sectional study. The DII is a literature‐derived dietary index developed to predict inflammation. The DII was calculated per 1000 calories and was tested against C‐reactive protein, ILs‐1,2,4,10, TNF‐α, ICAM, vascular cell adhesion molecule (VCAM), and IFN‐γ. All inflammatory markers had nonnormal distributions and therefore were log transformed. Analyses were performed using …
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