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- Title
Association between milk and yogurt intake and mortality: a community-based cohort study (Yamagata study).
- Authors
Nakanishi, Akiko; Homma, Erika; Osaki, Tsukasa; Sho, Ri; Souri, Masayoshi; Sato, Hidenori; Watanabe, Masafumi; Ishizawa, Kenichi; Ueno, Yoshiyuki; Kayama, Takamasa; Konta, Tsuneo
- Abstract
Background: Dairy products are known as health-promoting foods. This study prospectively examined the association between milk and yogurt intake and mortality in a community-based population. Methods: The study population comprised of 14,264 subjects aged 40–74 years who participated in an annual health checkup. The frequency of yogurt and milk intake was categorized as none (< 1/month), low (< 1/week), moderate (1–6/week), and high (> 1/day) intake. The association between yogurt and milk intake and total, cardiovascular, and cancer-related mortalities was determined using the Cox proportional hazards model. Results: During the follow-up period, there were 265 total deaths, 40 cardiovascular deaths and 90 cancer-related deaths. Kaplan–Meier analysis showed that the total mortality in high/moderate/low yogurt intake and moderate/low milk intake groups was lower than that in none group (log-rank, P < 0.01). In the multivariate Cox proportional hazard analysis adjusted for possible confounders, the hazard ratio (HR) for total mortality significantly decreased in high/moderate yogurt intake group (HR: 0.62, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.42–0.91 for high intake, HR: 0.70, 95%CI: 0.49–0.99 for moderate intake) and moderate milk intake group (HR: 0.67, 95% CI: 0.46–0.97) compared with the none yogurt and milk intake groups. A similar association was observed for cancer-related mortality, but not for cardiovascular mortality. Conclusions: Our study showed that yogurt and milk intake was independently associated with a decrease in total and cancer-related mortalities in the Japanese population.
- Subjects
JAPAN; YOGURT; DAIRY products; MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases; MILK
- Publication
BMC Nutrition, 2021, Vol 7, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2055-0928
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s40795-021-00435-1