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 …

ABSTRACT Background: Adherence to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, measured with
the US Department of Agriculture Healthy Eating Index (HEI), was associated with only a …

ObjectiveThe Healthy Eating Index (HEI), designed to assess adherence to the Dietary
Guidelines for Americans and the Food Guide Pyramid, was previously associated with only …

Background: Little is known about the overall health effects of adherence to the Dietary
Guidelines for Americans. The healthy eating index (HEI), developed at the US Department …

ABSTRACT Background: The Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the food guide pyramid
aim to reduce the risk of major chronic disease in the United States, but data supporting their …

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 …

Background: A priori diet scores such as the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) and the
food-based a priori diet quality score predict chronic disease risk. Objective: We compared …

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 …

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 …

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 …