Background: Healthy dietary patterns have been linked positively with health and longevity.
However, prospective studies in diverse populations in the United States addressing dietary …

Abstract The Dietary Patterns Methods Project (DPMP) was initiated in 2012 to strengthen
research evidence on dietary indices, dietary patterns, and health for upcoming revisions of …

Poor diet quality is thought to be a leading risk factor for years of life lost. We examined how
scores on 4 commonly used diet quality indices—the Healthy Eating Index 2010 (HEI), the …

Increased attention in dietary research and guidance has been focused on dietary patterns,
rather than on single nutrients or food groups, because dietary components are consumed …

Background Diet-quality indexes have been associated with a lower risk of chronic disease
mortality in Western populations, but it is unclear whether these indexes reflect protective …

The Healthy Eating Index-2015 (HEI-2015) was created to assess conformance of dietary
intake with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) 2015–2020. We assessed the …

Background: Indexes of diet quality have been shown to be associated with decreased risk
of mortality in several countries. It remains unclear if the Alternative Healthy Eating Index …

Results: Between 1998 and 2005, 4501 deaths from all-causes were registered. Between
1998 and 2003, there were 1394 CVD and 759 cancer deaths. High RFS (⩾ 28) compared …

Abstract The Healthy Eating Index-2005 (HEI-2005) measures adherence to the 2005
Dietary Guidelines for Americans, but the association between the HEI-2005 and risk of …

ContextMost studies of diet and health care have focused on the role of single nutrients,
foods, or food groups in disease prevention or promotion. Few studies have addressed the …