A systematic review and meta-analysis of nut consumption and incident risk of CVD and all-cause mortality

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 212-225

  Mayhew, Alexandra J ^a   De Souza, Russell J ^a   Meyre, David ^a   Anand, Sonia S ^a,b   Mente, Andrew ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

CHD; CVD; Mortality; Nuts

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DATA BASE; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD QUALITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; NUT; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DIET; FEMALE; MALE; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DIET; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDLINE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NUTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 84951558634     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114515004316     Document Type: Article

References (80)

1. Deaton C, Froelicher ES, Wu LH, et al. (2011) The global burden of cardiovascular disease. J Cardiovasc Nurs. 26, S5-S14.
2. Taylor F, Huffman MD, Macedo AF, et al. (2013) Statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008, issue 1, CD004816. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD0048.16.pub5/abstract
3. Carter AA, Gomes T, Camacho X, et al. (2013) Risk of incident diabetes among patients treated with statins: population based study. BMJ 23, f2610.
4. Chiuve SE, Rimm EB, Sandhu RK, et al. (2012) Dietary fat quality and risk of sudden cardiac death in women. Clin Nutr 96, 498-507.
5. Mozaffarian D, Ascherio A, Hu FB, et al. (2005) Interplay between different polyunsaturated fatty acids and risk of coronary heart disease in men. Circulation 111, 157-164.
6. Johnson RK, Black AE, & Cole TJ (1998) Dietary fat intake and the risk of coronary heart disease in women. N Engl J Med 338, 918-919.
7. Ros E (2010) Health benefits of nut consumption. Nutrients 2, 652-682.
8. Estruch R, Ros E, Salas-Salvado J, et al. (2013) Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease with a Mediterranean diet. N Engl J Med 368, 1279-1290.
9. De Lorgeril M, Salen P, Martin J-L, et al. (1999) Mediterranean diet, traditional risk factors, and the rate of cardiovascular complications after myocardial infarction: final report of the Lyon Diet Heart Study. Circulation 99, 779-785.
10. Kris-Etherton PM, Hu FB, Ros E, et al. (2008) The role of tree nuts and peanuts in the prevention of coronary heart disease: multiple potential mechanisms. J Nutr 138, 1746S-1751S.
11. Albert CM, Faziano MJ, Willett WC, et al. (2002) Nut consumption and decreased risk of sudden cardiac death in the Physicians' Health Study. Arch Intern Med 162, 1382-1387.
12. Baer HJ, Glynn RJ, Hu FB, et al. (2011) Risk factors for mortality in the Nurses' Health Study: a competing risks analysis. Am J Epidemiol 173, 319-329.
13. Bernstein AM, Pan A, Rexrode KM, et al. (2012) Dietary protein sources and the risk of stroke in men and women. Stroke 43, 637-644.
14. Fraser GE, Sabate J, Beeson WL, et al. (1992) A possible protective effect of nut consumption on risk of coronary heart disease. Arch Intern Med 152, 1416-1424.
15. Grosso G, Yang J, Marventano S, et al. (2015) Nut consumption on all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality risk: a systematic review and meta-Analysis of epidemiologic studies. Am J Clin Nutr 101, 783-793.
16. Ma L, Wang F, Guo W, et al. (2014) Nut consumption and the risk of coronary artery disease: a dose-response meta-Analysis of 13 prospective studies. Thromb Res 134, 790-794.
17. Shi ZQ, Tang JJ, Wu H, et al. (2014) Consumption of nuts and legumes and risk of stroke: a meta-Analysis of prospective cohort studies. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis 24, 1262-1271.
18. Afshin A, Micha R, Khatibzadeh S, et al. (2014) Consumption of nuts and legumes and risk of incident ischemic heart disease, stroke, and diabetes: a systematic review and metaanalysis. Am J Clin Nutr 100, 278-288.
19. Luo C, Zhang Y, Ding Y, et al. (2014) Nut consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and all-cause mortality: a systematic review and meta-Analysis. Am J Clinc Nutr 100, 256-269.
20. Zhou D, Yu H, He F, et al. (2014) Nut consumption in relation to cardiovascular risk and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-Analysis of prospective studies. Am J Clin Nutr 100, 270-277.
21. Luu HN, Blot WJ, Xiang Y-B, et al. (2015) Prospective evaluation of the association of nut/peanut consumption with total and cause-specific mortality. JAMA Intern Med 175, 755-766.
22. van den Brandt PA, & Schouten LJ (2015) Relationship of tree nut, peanut and peanut butter intake with total and causespecific mortality: a cohort study and meta-Analysis. Int J Epidemiol, 1-12.
23. di Giuseppe R, Fjeld MK, Dierkes J, et al. (2015) The association between nut consumption and the risk of total and ischemic stroke in a German cohort study. Eur J Clin Nutr 69, 431-435.
24. Stroup DF, Berlin JA, Morton SC, et al. (2000) Meta-Analysis of observational studies in epidemiology: a proposal for reporting. Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) group. JAMA 283, 2008-2012.
25. Wells GA, Shea B, Connell DO, et al. (2000) The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for assessing the quality of nonrandomised studies in meta-Analyses. http://www.medicine.mcgill. ca/rtamblyn/Readings/The Newcastle-Scale for assessing the quality of nonrandomised studies in meta-Analyses.pdf (accessed May 2013).
26. Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Schünemann HJ, et al. (2011) GRADE guidelines: a new series of articles in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. J Clin Epidemiol 64, 380-382.
27. Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Vist GE, et al. (2008) GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations. BMJ 336, 924-926.
28. Guyatt G, Oxman AD, Akl EA, et al. (2011) GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction-GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables. J Clin Epidemiol 64, 383-394.
29. Robays J, & Vlayen J (2012) Dealing with fragility: optimal information size. In KCE Process B. Brussels: Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre. http://processbook.kce.fgov.be/node/140 (accessed September 2015).
30. Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Kunz R, et al. (2011) GRADE guidelines 6. Rating the quality of evidence Imprecision. J Clin Epidemiol 64, 1283-1293.
31. DerSimonian R, & Laird N (1986) Meta-Analysis in clinical trials. Control Clin Trials 7, 177-188.
32. Greenland S, & Longnecker MP (1992) Methods for trend estimation from summarized dose-response data, with applications to meta-Analysis. Am J Epidemiol 135, 1301-1309.
33. Orsini N, Bellocco R, & Greeland S (2006) Multivariate random-Effects meta-Analysis. Stata J 6, 40-57.
34. United States Department of Agriculture, & United States Department of Health and Human Services (2010) Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010, 7th ed. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office.
35. Egger M, Davey Smith G, Schneider M, et al. (1997) Bias in meta-Analysis detected by a simple, graphical test. BMJ 315, 629-634.
36. Begg CB, & Mazumdar M (1994) Operating characteristics of a rank correlation test for publication bias. Biometrics 50, 1088-1101.
37. Duval S, & Tweedie R (2000) Trim and fill: a simple funnelplot-based method of testing and adjusting for publication bias in meta-Analysis. Biometrics 56, 455-463.
38. The Nordic Cochrane Centre-The Cochrane Collaboration (2012) Review Manager. Copenhagen: The Nordic Cochrane Centre-The Cochrane Collaboration.
39. StataCorp LP (2015) Stata Statistical Software: Release 14. College Station, TX: StataCorp LP.
40. Bao Y, Han J, Hu FB, et al. (2013) Association of nut consumption with total and cause-specific mortality. N Engl J Med 369, 2001-2011.
41. Li TY, Brennan AM, Wedick NM, et al. (2009) Regular consumption of nuts is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease in women with type 2 diabetes. J Nutr 139, 1333-1338.
42. Bernstein AM, Sun Q, Hu FB, et al. (2010) Major dietary protein sources and risk of coronary heart disease in women. Circulation 122, 876-883.
43. Hu FB, Stampfer MJ, Manson JE, et al. (1998) Frequent nut consumption and risk of coronary heart disease in women: prospective cohort study. BMJ 317, 1341-1345.
44. Djousse L, Gaziano JM, Kase CS, et al. (2010) Nut consumption and risk of stroke in US male physicians. Clin Nutr 29, 605-609.
45. Fraser GE, Sumbureru D, Pribis P, et al. (1997) Association among health habits, risk factors, and all-cause mortality in a black California population. Epidemiology 8, 168-174.
46. Fraser GE, & Shavlik DJ (1997) Risk factors for all-cause and coronary heart disease mortality in the oldest-old. Arch Intern Med 157, 2249-2258.
47. Blomhoff R, Carlsen MH, Andersen LF, et al. (2007) Health benefits of nuts: potential role of antioxidants. Br J Nutr 96, S52-S60.
48. Levitan EB, Lewis CE, Tinker LF, et al. (2013) Mediterranean and DASH diet scores and mortality in women with heart failure: the Women's Health Initiative. Circ Heart Fail 6, 1116-1123.
49. Yaemsiri S, Sen S, Tinker L, et al. (2012) Trans fat, aspirin, and ischemic stroke in postmenopausal women. Ann Neurol 72, 704-715.
50. Haring B, Gronroos N, Nettleton JA, et al. (2014) Dietary protein intake and coronary heart disease in a large community based cohort: results from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. PLOS ONE 9, e109552.
51. Guasch-Ferre M, Bullo M, Martínez-González M, et al. (2013) Frequency of nut consumption and mortality risk in the PREDIMED nutrition intervention trial. BMC Med 11, 164.
52. Fernández-Montero A, Bes-Rastrollo M, Barrio-Lopez MT, et al. (2014) Nut consumption and 5-y all-cause mortality in a Mediterranean cohort: the SUN project. Nutrition 30, 1022-1027.
53. van den Brandt PA (2011) The impact of a Mediterranean diet and healthy lifestyle on premature. Am J Clin Nutr 94, 913-920.
54. Mann JI, Appleby PN, Key TJ, et al. (1997) Dietary determinants of ischaemic heart disease in health conscious individuals. Heart 78, 450-455.
55. Fraser GE, LIndsted KD, & Beeson LW (1995) Effect of risk factor values on lifetime risk of and age at first coronary event. Am J Epidemiol 142, 746-758.
56. Sterne JA, Gavaghan D, & Egger M (2000) Publication and related bias in meta-Analysis: power of statistical tests and prevalence in the literature. J Clin Epidemiol 53, 1119-1129.
57. Lotfi MH, Kannan AT, Dwivedi S, et al. (2008) Original report the role of adverse lifestyle changes in the causation of coronary artery disease. Acta Med Iran 46, 125-132.
58. World Health Organization, & Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2003) Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases: Report of a Joint WHO/FAO Expert Consultation. Geneva: WHO, & FAO.
59. Lichtenstein AH, Appel LJ, Brands M, et al. (2006) Diet and lifestyle recommendations revision 2006: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Nutrition Committee. Circulation 114, 82-96.
60. Health Canada (2012) Eating well with Canada's food guide. http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-An/alt-formats/hpfb-Dgpsa/pdf/foodguide-Aliment/view-Eatwell-vue-bienmang-Eng.pdf (accessed May 2013).
61. US Department of Agriculture, & US Department of Health and Human Services (2010) Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Washingon, DC.
62. Molyneux RJ, Mahoney N, Kim JH, et al. (2007) Mycotoxins in edible tree nuts. Int J Food Microbiol 119, 72-78.
63. Trichopoulos A, Costacou T, Bamia C, et al. (2003) Adherence to a Mediterranean diet and survival in a Greek population. N Engl J Med 348, 2599-2608.
64. Dilis V, Katsoulis M, Lagiou P, et al. (2012) Mediterranean diet and CHD: the Greek European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort. Br J Nutr 108, 699-709.
65. Mitrou PN, Kipnis V, Thie ACM, et al. (2013) Mediterranean dietary pattern and prediction of all-cause mortality in a US population. Arch Intern Med 167, 2461-2468.
66. Fung TT, Rexrode KM, Mantzoros CS, et al. (2009) Mediterranean diet and incidence of and mortality from coronary heart disease and stroke in women. Circulation 119, 1093-1100.
67. Buckland G, González CA, Agudo A, et al. (2009) Adherence to the Mediterranean diet and risk of coronary heart disease in the Spanish EPIC Cohort Study. Am J Epidemiol 170, 1518-1529.
68. Estruch R, Ros E, Salas-Salvado J, et al. (2013) Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease with a Mediterranean diet. New Engl J Med 368, 1279-1290.
69. Barzi F, Woodward M, Marfisi RM, et al. (2003) Mediterranean diet and all-causes mortality after myocardial infarction: results from the GISSI-Prevenzione trial. Eur J Clin Nutr 57, 604-611.
70. Singh RB, Dubnov G, Niaz MA, et al. (2002) Effect of an Indo-Mediterranean diet on progression of coronary artery disease in high risk patients (Indo-Mediterranean Diet Heart Study): a randomised single-blind trial. Lancet 360, 1455-1461.
71. Sabate J, Oda K, & Ros E (2014) Nut consumption and lipid levels. Arch Intern Med 170, 821-827.
72. Banel DK, & Hu FB (2009) Effects of walnut consumption on blood lipids and other cardiovascular risk factors: a meta-Analysis and systematic review. Am J Clin Nutr 90, 56-63.
73. Nash SD, & Nash DT (2008) Nuts as part of a healthy cardiovascular diet. Curr Atheroscler Rep 10, 529-535.
74. Lorente-Cebrián S, Costa AGV, Navas-Carretero S, et al. (2013) Role of omega-3 fatty acids in obesity, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular diseases: a review of the evidence. J Physiol Biochem 69, 633-651.
75. O'Neil CE, KeastDR, Nicklas TA, et al. (2011) Nut consumption is associated with decreased health risk factors for cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome in U.S. adults: NHANES 1999-2004. J Am Coll Nutr 30, 502-510.
76. Oh K, Hu FB, Manson JE, et al. (2005) Dietary fat intake and risk of coronary heart disease in women: 20 years of follow-up of the Nurses' Health Study. Am J Clin Nutr 161, 672-679.
77. Pietinen P, Ascherio A, Korhonen P, et al. (1997) Intake of fatty acids and risk of coronary heart disaese in a cohort of Finnish men. Am J Epidemiol 145, 876-887.
78. Jenkins DJ, Kendall CW, Banach MS, et al. (2011) Nuts as a replacement for carbohydrates in the diabetic diet. Diabetes Care 34, 1706-1711.
79. Stamler J (2010) Diet-heart: a problematic revisit. Am J Clin Nutr 91, 497-499.
80. Scarborough P, Rayner M, van Dis I, et al. (2010) Saturated fat and heart disease. Am J Clin Nutr 92, 459-460.