David J A Jenkins, Walter C Willett, Salim Yusuf, Frank B Hu, Andrea J Glenn, Simin Liu, Andrew Mente, Victoria Miller, Shrikant I Bangdiwala, Hertzel C Gerstein, Sabina Sieri, Pietro Ferrari, Alpa V Patel, Marjorie L McCullough, Loïc Le Marchand, Neal D Freedman, Erikka Loftfield, Rashmi Sinha, Xiao-Ou Shu, Mathilde Touvier, Norie Sawada, Shoichiro Tsugane, Piet A van den Brandt, Kerem Shuval, Tauseef Ahmad Khan, Melanie Paquette, Sandhya Sahye-Pudaruth, Darshna Patel, Teenie Fei Yi Siu, Korbua Srichaikul, Cyril W C Kendall, John L Sievenpiper
BACKGROUND: There is debate over whether the glycaemic index of foods relates to chronic disease. We aimed to assess the associations between glycaemic index (GI) and glycaemic load (GL) and type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, diabetes-related cancers, and all-cause mortality. METHODS: We did a meta-analysis of large cohorts (≥100 000 participants) identified from the Richard Doll Consortium. We searched the Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and Scopus for cohorts that prospectively examined associations between GI or GL and chronic disease outcomes published from database inception to Aug 4, 2023...
February 2024: Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology