One serving of fried food a day increases risk of death in older women | Life

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 – A new US study has shown that a diet rich in fried foods appears to be badociated with a higher risk of death among women over 50 years old.

Conducted by researchers from the University of Iowa and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Washington, this new study evaluated the diet of 106,966 women aged 50 to 79 years enrolled at the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study between 1993 and 1998 and followed until 2017.

To investigate a possible badociation between fried food consumption and death from any cause, including cancer or cardiovascular disease, the researchers examined the total and specific consumption of women of various fried foods, including fried chicken, fried fish, fish sandwiches, shellfish, including shrimp and oysters, and other fried foods such as french fries, tortilla chips and tacos.

The results, published in The bmj, have shown that after taking into account other potentially influential factors such as lifestyle and quality of diet in general, regular consumption of fried foods was badociated with a higher risk of death, whatever its cause, and in particular deaths of cardiac origin. Those who ate one or more servings of fried foods a day had a risk of death from all causes of cardiovascular disease 8% higher than those who did not eat them.

In addition, an even stronger badociation was observed between regular consumption of fried chicken and fried fish / shellfish and the risk of cardiac death, particularly among younger women aged 50 and over. at 65 years old. One or more portions of fried chicken per day had a 13% higher risk of death badociated with another 13% higher cause of death and a 12% higher risk of heart-related death than not eating fried food, and one or more servings of fried fish / shellfish per day was badociated with an all-cause death risk of 7% and a core-related risk of death of 13%.

The researchers found no evidence that fried food consumption was badociated with a cancer-related death.

The researchers noted that, as an observational study, the results could not show the cause and effect, and as it only concerned American women, it might not apply to other populations.

However, they add that "we have identified a risk factor for easily modifiable cardiovascular mortality according to lifestyle" and conclude that "the reduction in the consumption of fried foods, especially fried chicken and fish / shellfish can have a clinically significant impact on the health spectrum. "- AFP-Relaxnews