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Article
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate Healthy Eating Index 2015 (HEI-2015) and Energy-Adjusted Dietary Inflammatory Index (E-DIITM) scores in women's cancer survivors and to examine socio-economic (SES) characteristics associated with these two diet indices. In this cross-sectional study, survivors of women's cancers completed a demographic questionnaire and up to three 24-h dietary recalls. HEI-2015 and E-DII scores were calculated from average intakes. One-way ANOVA was used to examine the association of various demographic factors on HEI-2015 and E-DII scores. Pearson Correlation was used to calculate the correlation between the two scores. The average HEI-2015 score was 55.0 +/- 13.5, lower than the national average, and average E-DII was -1.14 +/- 2.24, with 29% of women having a more pro-inflammatory and 71% a more anti-inflammatory diet. Diets with higher HEI-2015 scores were associated with more anti-inflammatory diets (r = -0.67, p < 0.001). Those having a graduate degree (F(2,49) = 3.6, p = 0.03) and completing cancer treatment > 4 years ago (F(2,49) = 4.8, p = 0.01) had higher HEI-2015 scores. There were no associations between SES and E-DII scores. The diet quality of women's cancer survivors is comparatively low, but many achieved an anti-inflammatory diet; a promising avenue for preventing recurrence. There is an urgent need to involve health care professionals in the guidance of women's cancer survivors to improve diet quality and prevent cancer recurrence.
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Published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Volume 19, Issue 4, 2022, pages 1916-.
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© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
APA Citation
Kranz, S., Hasan, F., Kennedy, E., Zoellner, J., Guertin, K. A., Shivappa, N., Hébert, J. R., Anderson, R., & Cohn, W. (2022). Diet Quality and Dietary Inflammatory Index Score among Women’s Cancer Survivors. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(4), 1916. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19041916 https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19041916