Greater Adherence to the 2019 Canada’s Food Guide Recommendations On Healthy Food Choices Reduces the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: a Prospective Analysis of UK Biobank Data.
Published in Am J Clin Nutr, 2022
Recommended citation: Brassard D, Manikpurage HD, Thériault S, et al. Greater Adherence to the 2019 Canada's Food Guide Recommendations On Healthy Food Choices Reduces the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: a Prospective Analysis of UK Biobank Data. Am J Clin Nutr 2022. doi:10.1093/ajcn/nqac256 http://didierbrassard.github.io/files/Brassard_et_al_AJCN2022.pdf
The aim of this study was to examine how greater adherence to the 2019 CFG's recommendations on healthy food choices influences the risk of incident CVD.
SAS codes for the main analysis as well as the RMarkdown files (main text and supplemental material) are publicly available in the hefi2019_cvd GitHub repository. The code provided shows how to use the National Cancer Institute multivariate method to obtain usual intake distribution for the Healthy Eating Food Index (HEFI)-2019 as well as measurement error-corrected estimates of the HEFI2019-cardiovascular disease relationship.