Ultraprocessed Food Intake Is Associated Weakly with Long-Term Mortality

Meat-based ultraprocessed foods had the strongest association.

Ultraprocessed foods — industrial products made of food-derived substances with little or no intact whole food — make up more than half of the average diet in the U.S. and might be associated with adverse health outcomes (NEJM JW Gen Med Jul 15 2019 and BMJ 2019; 365:l1451; NEJM JW Gen Med 2022 Sep 22; [e-pub] and BMJ 2022; 378:e070688). Investigators analyzed data from two long-term, prospective studies in which 110,000 U.S. health professionals completed detailed dietary surveys every 4 years starting in the 1980s. Data were collected on mortality during >30 years.

Compared with participants in the lowest quartile of ultraprocessed food intake, those in the highest quartile had significantly higher all-cause mortality (hazard ratio, 1.04) …

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Bruce Soloway, MD

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Bruce Soloway, MD

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Ultraprocessed Food Intake Is Associated Weakly with Long-Term Mortality

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