Tingjing Zhang1, Sabina Rayamajhi1, Ge Meng2, Qing Zhang3, Li Liu3, Hongmei Wu1, Yeqing Gu4, Yawen Wang1, Shunming Zhang1, Xuena Wang1, Juanjuan Zhang1, Huiping Li1, Amrish Thapa1, Shaomei Sun3, Xing Wang3, Ming Zhou3, Qiyu Jia3, Kun Song3, Kaijun Niu5. 1. Nutritional Epidemiology Institute and School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China. 2. Nutritional Epidemiology Institute and School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China; Department of Toxicology and Sanitary Chemistry, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China. 3. Health Management Centre, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China. 4. Institute of Radiation Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, China. 5. Nutritional Epidemiology Institute and School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China; Health Management Centre, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China; Institute of Radiation Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, China; Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environment, Nutrition and Public Health, Tianjin, China; Center for International Collaborative Research on Environment, Nutrition and Public Health, Tianjin, China. Electronic address: nkj0809@gmail.com.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Prospective cohort studies linking dietary patterns and hyperuricemia (HUA) are limited, especially in Asian populations. The aim of this study was to prospectively investigate the association between various dietary patterns and risk for HUA in a general adult population. METHOD: We used data from the TCLSIH (Tianjin Chronic Low-grade Systemic Inflammation and Health) cohort study of 20 766 men and women who were free from HUA, cancer, and cardiovascular disease at baseline. Dietary patterns at baseline were identified with factor analysis based on responses to a validated 81-item food frequency questionnaire. HUA was defined as serum uric acid levels >420 μmol/L in men and >350 μmol/L in women. Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to examine the association of dietary patterns with incident HUA. RESULTS: In all, 4389 first incident cases of HUA occurred during 73 822 person-years of follow-up (median follow-up of 4.2 y). Three main dietary patterns were extracted. They were the vegetable, sweet food, and animal food patterns. After adjusting for demographic characteristics, lifestyle factors, other dietary pattern scores, and inflammatory markers, comparing the highest with the lowest quartiles of dietary pattern scores, the multivariable hazard ratios (95% confidence interval) of HUA were 0.79 (0.72-0.87; Ptrend < 0.0001) for the vegetable pattern, 1.22 (1.12-1.33; Ptrend < 0.0001) for the sweet food pattern, and 1.24 (1.13-1.37; Ptrend < 0.0001) for the animal food pattern. CONCLUSIONS: Dietary patterns rich in animal or sweet foods were positively associated with a higher risk for HUA, whereas the vegetable pattern was negatively associated.
OBJECTIVE: Prospective cohort studies linking dietary patterns and hyperuricemia (HUA) are limited, especially in Asian populations. The aim of this study was to prospectively investigate the association between various dietary patterns and risk for HUA in a general adult population. METHOD: We used data from the TCLSIH (Tianjin Chronic Low-grade Systemic Inflammation and Health) cohort study of 20 766 men and women who were free from HUA, cancer, and cardiovascular disease at baseline. Dietary patterns at baseline were identified with factor analysis based on responses to a validated 81-item food frequency questionnaire. HUA was defined as serum uric acid levels >420 μmol/L in men and >350 μmol/L in women. Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to examine the association of dietary patterns with incident HUA. RESULTS: In all, 4389 first incident cases of HUA occurred during 73 822 person-years of follow-up (median follow-up of 4.2 y). Three main dietary patterns were extracted. They were the vegetable, sweet food, and animal food patterns. After adjusting for demographic characteristics, lifestyle factors, other dietary pattern scores, and inflammatory markers, comparing the highest with the lowest quartiles of dietary pattern scores, the multivariable hazard ratios (95% confidence interval) of HUA were 0.79 (0.72-0.87; Ptrend < 0.0001) for the vegetable pattern, 1.22 (1.12-1.33; Ptrend < 0.0001) for the sweet food pattern, and 1.24 (1.13-1.37; Ptrend < 0.0001) for the animal food pattern. CONCLUSIONS: Dietary patterns rich in animal or sweet foods were positively associated with a higher risk for HUA, whereas the vegetable pattern was negatively associated.