By Shrabasti Bhattacharya
Source Medscape
TOPLINE:
The risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D) was higher in individuals who followed a pro-inflammatory diet and had a high habitual salt intake than in those who followed an anti-inflammatory diet and used less salt.
METHODOLOGY:
- High scores on the dietary inflammatory index (DII) — a scoring system that measures the inflammatory potential of an individual’s diet — and high salt intake are associated with increased cardiovascular disease risk; however, studies investigating the association between DII and salt intake with incident T2D risk are scarce.
- Researchers investigated the association between a pro-inflammatory diet, habitual salt intake, and the risk for T2D among 171,094 participants from the UK Biobank (mean age, 55.98 years; 40.7% men).