Jiantao Ma1,2, Xue Liu3, Yuankai Zhang3, Hanning Cheng1, Wencheng Gao3, Chao-Qiang Lai4, Stacey Gabriel5, Namrata Gupta5, Ramachandran S Vasan6, Daniel Levy2,6, Chunyu Liu3,6. 1. Division of Nutrition Epidemiology and Data Science, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA. 2. Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD. 3. Department of Biostatistics, Boston University, Boston, MA. 4. USDA Agricultural Research Service, Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, JM-USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA. 5. Genomics Platform, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA. 6. Boston University and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The association between diet quality and mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNA-CN) remains to be examined. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to study the relation between diet quality and mtDNA-CN. METHODS: We analyzed data from 2931 Framingham Heart Study (FHS) participants (mean age of 57 y, 55% females). Whole-genome sequencing was used to calculate mtDNA-CN from whole-blood samples. We examined the cross-sectional associations between 3 diet quality scores, the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) score, the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI), and the Mediterranean diet score (MDS), and mtDNA-CN. Linear mixed models were used to account for maternal lineage. RESULTS: We observed that a higher DASH score was positively associated with mtDNA-CN after adjusting for sex, age, energy intake, smoking status, alcohol intake, and physical activity level. A 1-SD increase in the DASH score was associated with a 0.042-SD greater mtDNA-CN (95% CI: 0.007, 0.077; P = 0.02). Similarly, for each SD increase in AHEI and MDS, the mtDNA-CN SD increased by 0.056 (95% CI: 0.019, 0.092; P = 0.003) and 0.047 (95% CI: 0.01, 0.083; P = 0.01), respectively. Diet quality scores were associated with neutrophil and lymphocyte counts but not platelet counts, e.g., for a 1-SD increase in the DASH, neutrophils decreased by 0.8% (95% CI: 0.5%, 1.1%; P = 4.1 × 10-6), lymphocytes increased by 0.7% (95% CI: 0.4%, 1%, P = 1.2 × 10-5), and there was no significant change in platelet number (0.1 × 1000/μL; 95% CI: -1.6, 1.9; P = 0.89). Further adjustment for neutrophil, lymphocyte, and platelet counts and the associations between diet quality scores and mtDNA-CN were completely attenuated to nonsignificant (P = 0.95, 0.54, and 0.91, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: We observed that higher diet quality is associated with a greater whole-blood derived mtDNA-CN in middle-aged to older adult FHS participants, and that blood cell composition, particularly neutrophil counts, attenuated the association between diet quality and mtDNA-CN.
BACKGROUND: The association between diet quality and mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNA-CN) remains to be examined. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to study the relation between diet quality and mtDNA-CN. METHODS: We analyzed data from 2931 Framingham Heart Study (FHS) participants (mean age of 57 y, 55% females). Whole-genome sequencing was used to calculate mtDNA-CN from whole-blood samples. We examined the cross-sectional associations between 3 diet quality scores, the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) score, the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI), and the Mediterranean diet score (MDS), and mtDNA-CN. Linear mixed models were used to account for maternal lineage. RESULTS: We observed that a higher DASH score was positively associated with mtDNA-CN after adjusting for sex, age, energy intake, smoking status, alcohol intake, and physical activity level. A 1-SD increase in the DASH score was associated with a 0.042-SD greater mtDNA-CN (95% CI: 0.007, 0.077; P = 0.02). Similarly, for each SD increase in AHEI and MDS, the mtDNA-CN SD increased by 0.056 (95% CI: 0.019, 0.092; P = 0.003) and 0.047 (95% CI: 0.01, 0.083; P = 0.01), respectively. Diet quality scores were associated with neutrophil and lymphocyte counts but not platelet counts, e.g., for a 1-SD increase in the DASH, neutrophils decreased by 0.8% (95% CI: 0.5%, 1.1%; P = 4.1 × 10-6), lymphocytes increased by 0.7% (95% CI: 0.4%, 1%, P = 1.2 × 10-5), and there was no significant change in platelet number (0.1 × 1000/μL; 95% CI: -1.6, 1.9; P = 0.89). Further adjustment for neutrophil, lymphocyte, and platelet counts and the associations between diet quality scores and mtDNA-CN were completely attenuated to nonsignificant (P = 0.95, 0.54, and 0.91, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: We observed that higher diet quality is associated with a greater whole-blood derived mtDNA-CN in middle-aged to older adult FHS participants, and that blood cell composition, particularly neutrophil counts, attenuated the association between diet quality and mtDNA-CN.
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