Association between diet quality indices and incidence of type 2 diabetes in the melbourne collaborative cohort study

Abstract

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a common condition whose incidence is increasing worldwide, and for which obesity and diet are important risk factors. The aim of this study was to assess the association of three diet quality scores with diabetes risk and how much of the association was mediated through body size. The Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study recruited 41,513 men and women aged 40–69 years during 1990–94. At baseline, data were collected on lifestyle and diet, anthropometric measures were performed. Incident diabetes was assessed by self-report at follow-up surveys in 1994–98 and 2003–07. The associations between the dietary inflammatory index (DII®), Mediterranean Diet Score (MDS) an..