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Fruit, vegetable, and legume intake, and cardiovascular disease and deaths in 18 countries (PURE): a prospective cohort study

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The association between intake of fruits, vegetables, and legumes with cardiovascular disease and deaths has been investigated extensively in Europe, the USA, Japan, and China, but little or no data are available from the Middle East, South America, Africa, or south Asia. METHODS: We did a prospective cohort study (Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology [PURE] in 135 335 individuals aged 35 to 70 years without cardiovascular disease …

Authors

Miller V; Mente A; Dehghan M; Rangarajan S; Zhang X; Swaminathan S; Dagenais G; Gupta R; Mohan V; Lear S

Journal

The Lancet, Vol. 390, No. 10107, pp. 2037–2049

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

November 2017

DOI

10.1016/s0140-6736(17)32253-5

ISSN

0140-6736