Fruit juice, fruit, and cardiovascular diseases

Completed

• Conditions: Cardiovascular diseases, coronary heart diseases and stroke; Circulatory System

• Registration Number: ISRCTN14659829
• Lead Sponsor: etherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

Brief Summary

2019 results in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30428938 (added 15/01/2019).

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Completion: 2017-12-01
• Study Start: 2018-01-29
• Last Update Posted: 11 February 2019

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 40000

Inclusion Criteria

The EPIC-NL study consists of two cohorts:
1. The MORGEN cohort consists of men and women aged 20 – 65 years selected from random samples of the Dutch population in three towns in the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Doetinchem, Maastricht)
2. The Prospect cohort consists of women from the Dutch town Utrecht or its vicinity, who participated in a breast cancer screening program

Exclusion Criteria

1. Missing food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ)
2. Extremely low or high reported energy intake (i.e. those in the lowest or highest 0.5% of the ratio of energy intake over basal metabolic rate)
3. No permission to link with the Dutch Hospital Discharge Diagnosis Database
4. Missing vital status
5. Missing cause of death
6. Prevalent CVD at baseline based on self-report or identified through linkage with the Dutch Hospital Discharge Diagnosis Database
7. Prevalent Diabetes Mellitus at baseline based on self-report, or missing data on confounders

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified