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CANCER DIGEST – Jan. 26, 2019 – Put down that bucket of fried chicken! A new study of postmenopausal women has found that regularly eating fried food is linked with a higher risk of death from any cause, and heart-related death in particular.
The study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) this week used a questionnaire to assess the diets of 106,966 women aged 50-79.
The women were enrolled in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) between 1993 and 1998 and were followed for 20 years through February 2017.
When they looked at the data from 31,588 deaths, there were 9,320 heart-related deaths, 8,358 cancer deaths and 13,880 from other causes. Then they looked at the total and specific consumption of different fried foods, including: fried chicken, fired fish, fish sandwiches, fried shellfish and other fried foods, such as french fries, tortilla chips and tacos.
After accounting for other lifestyle factors such as overall diet, education, income, the researchers found that one or more servings of fried chicken per day was linked to a 13 percent higher risk of death from any cause and 12 percent higher risk of heart-related death compared to no fried food.
Similarly, one or more servings of fried fish/shellfish was linked to a 7 percent higher risk of death from any cause and a 13 percent higher risk of heart-related death compared to no fried food.
The study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) this week used a questionnaire to assess the diets of 106,966 women aged 50-79.
The women were enrolled in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) between 1993 and 1998 and were followed for 20 years through February 2017.
When they looked at the data from 31,588 deaths, there were 9,320 heart-related deaths, 8,358 cancer deaths and 13,880 from other causes. Then they looked at the total and specific consumption of different fried foods, including: fried chicken, fired fish, fish sandwiches, fried shellfish and other fried foods, such as french fries, tortilla chips and tacos.
After accounting for other lifestyle factors such as overall diet, education, income, the researchers found that one or more servings of fried chicken per day was linked to a 13 percent higher risk of death from any cause and 12 percent higher risk of heart-related death compared to no fried food.
Similarly, one or more servings of fried fish/shellfish was linked to a 7 percent higher risk of death from any cause and a 13 percent higher risk of heart-related death compared to no fried food.
The oily silver lining from the study was there was no association between fried foods and cancer-related deaths. The women who regularly ate fried foods and had died tended to be younger, ate a generally less healthy diet, were less educated, non-white, and smokers who did not exercise.
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