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Iliana-Parthenia Anagnostou1<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0, Demosthenes Panagiotakos<\/a>1<\/sup>, Ekavi Georgousopoulou<\/a>1<\/sup>, Nikolaos Skourlis<\/a>1<\/sup>, Mihail Chatzigeorgiou<\/a>1<\/sup>, Christina Chrysohoou<\/a>2<\/sup>, Ioannis Skoumas<\/a>2<\/sup>, Christodoulos Stefanadis<\/a>2<\/sup>, Christos Pitsavos<\/a>2<\/sup>, the ATTICA study group<\/p>\n 1. Department of Nutrition & Dietetics, School of Health, Science & Education, Harakopio University, Athens, Greece,<\/p>\n 2. First Cardiology Clinic, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece<\/p>\n [\/authors]<\/p>\n [summary]<\/p>\n Aims: <\/strong>This work aimed at exploring the effect of dietary fiber consumption in the 10-year incidence of cardiovascular\u00a0disease (CVD), after controlling for the possible mediating role of family history of CVD. Methods:<\/strong> The ATTICA study was carried out in the Athens metropolitan area during 2001-2 and included a total sample of 1514 men and 1528 women (aged 18-89) free of CVD at baseline. During 2011-12, the 10-year follow-up was performed and 2583 participants were assessed. A variety of socio-demographic, clinical and lifestyle factors were recorded, including history of CVD. The evaluation of dietary habits was based on a valid semi-quantitative questionnaire of food frequency, through dietary fiber consumption in g\/day was measured, indirectly. Fiber-consumers were categorized according the amount of intake in low (<34.5g\/day), medium (34.5-43.1g\/day) and high (>43.1g\/day) intake groups. Results:<\/strong> 33.5% of the subjects consumed dietary fibers, in a daily basis. After controlling for several potential confounding factors, proportional hazard analysis revealed no statistically significant relevance among fibers and CVD risk (medium to low intake: OR=0.53, 95% CI:0.221-1.274 and high to low intake: OR=0.64, 95% CI:0.270-1.559). However, sample stratification by family history of CVD, highlighted that high fiber intake (>43.1g\/day) led to a reduction of 82% (OR=0.18, 95% CI:0.045-0.721) in the 10-year CVD risk in those reporting presence of CVD history, compared to those who did not, where results were not significant (OR=1.59, 95% CI:0.422-6.054). Conclusion:<\/strong> In the present study, a higher intake of dietary fiber was associated with a lower risk of CVD, in the presence of a strong CVD risk factor, such as family history. Therefore, an adherence to a diet of high fiber content could have potentially, a large impact on primary prevention of CVD.<\/p>\n [\/summary]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aims: This work aimed at exploring the effect of dietary fiber consumption in the 10-year incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD), after controlling for the possible mediating role of family history of CVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[375],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hjnutrdiet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}