Dietary Choline is Positively Related to Overall and Cause-Specific Mortality: Results from Individuals of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and Pooling Prospective Data
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2019

Little is known about the association between dietary choline intake and mortality. We evaluated the link between choline consumption and overall as well as cause-specific mortality by using both individual data and pooling prospective studies by meta-analysis and systematic review. Furthermore, adjusted means of cardiometabolic risk factors across choline intake quartiles were calculated. Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999-2010) were collected. Adjusted Cox regression was performed to determine the risk ratio (RR) and 95 % CI (95 % CI), as well as random-effects models and generic inverse variance methods to synthesise quantitative and pooling data, followed by a leave-one-out method for sensitivity analysis. After adjustments, we found that individuals consuming more choline had worse lipid profile and glucose homeostasis, but lower CRP levels (p < 0·001 for all comparisons) with no significant differences in anthropometric parameters and blood pressure. Multivariable Cox regression models revealed that individuals in the highest quartile (Q4) of choline consumption had a greater risk of total (23 %), cardiovascular disease (CVD) (33 %) and stroke (30 %) mortality compared with the first quartile (Q1) (p < 0·001 for all comparison). These results were confirmed in a meta-analysis, showing that choline intake was positively and significantly associated with overall (RR: 1·12, 95 % CI: 1·08-1·17, I2: 2·9) and CVD (RR: 1·28, 95 % CI: 1·17-1·39, I2: 9·6) mortality risk. In contrast, the positive association between choline consumption and stroke mortality became non-significant (RR: 1·18, 95 % CI: 0·97-1·43, p = 0·092, I2: 1·1). Our findings shed light on the potential adverse effects of choline intake on selected cardiometabolic risk factors and mortality risk.

Lipids

Glucose homeostasis

Cardiovascular mortality

Choline

Inflammation

Stroke mortality

Overall mortality

Författare

Mohsen Mazidi

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Niki Katsiki

Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis

Dimitri P. Mikhailidis

University College London (UCL)

Maciej Banach

Uniwersytet Zielonogorski

Medical University of Lodz

Instytut Centrum Zdrowia Matki Polki

British Journal of Nutrition

0007-1145 (ISSN) 1475-2662 (eISSN)

Ämneskategorier

Allmänmedicin

Miljömedicin och yrkesmedicin

Näringslära

DOI

10.1017/S0007114519001065

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