Whole Grain Consumption and Risk of Ischemic Stroke: Results From 2 Prospective Cohort Studies

Juan Juan¹, Gang Liu¹, Walter C Willett¹, Frank B Hu¹, Kathryn M Rexrode¹, Qi Sun²

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¹ From the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Peking University School of Public Health, Beijing, China (J.J.); Departments of Nutrition (J.J., G.L., W.C.W., F.B.H., Q.S.) and Epidemiology (W.C.W., F.B.H.), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (W.C.W., F.B.H., Q.S.); and Divisions of Women's Health (K.M.R.) and Preventive Medicine (K.M.R.), Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
² From the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Peking University School of Public Health, Beijing, China (J.J.); Departments of Nutrition (J.J., G.L., W.C.W., F.B.H., Q.S.) and Epidemiology (W.C.W., F.B.H.), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (W.C.W., F.B.H., Q.S.); and Divisions of Women's Health (K.M.R.) and Preventive Medicine (K.M.R.), Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. qisun@hsph.harvard.edu.

PMID: 29127271
PMCID: PMC5726805
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.117.018979

Whole Grain Consumption and Risk of Ischemic Stroke: Results From 2 Prospective Cohort Studies

Juan Juan et al. Stroke. 2017 Dec.

. 2017 Dec;48(12):3203-3209.

doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.117.018979. Epub 2017 Nov 10.

Authors

Juan Juan¹, Gang Liu¹, Walter C Willett¹, Frank B Hu¹, Kathryn M Rexrode¹, Qi Sun²

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¹ From the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Peking University School of Public Health, Beijing, China (J.J.); Departments of Nutrition (J.J., G.L., W.C.W., F.B.H., Q.S.) and Epidemiology (W.C.W., F.B.H.), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (W.C.W., F.B.H., Q.S.); and Divisions of Women's Health (K.M.R.) and Preventive Medicine (K.M.R.), Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
² From the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Peking University School of Public Health, Beijing, China (J.J.); Departments of Nutrition (J.J., G.L., W.C.W., F.B.H., Q.S.) and Epidemiology (W.C.W., F.B.H.), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (W.C.W., F.B.H., Q.S.); and Divisions of Women's Health (K.M.R.) and Preventive Medicine (K.M.R.), Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. qisun@hsph.harvard.edu.

PMID: 29127271
PMCID: PMC5726805
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.117.018979

Abstract

Background and purpose: Higher intake of whole grains may exert cardiometabolic benefits, although findings on stroke risk are inconclusive. The potentially differential effects of individual whole grain foods on ischemic stroke have not been examined.

Methods: We analyzed whole grain consumption in relation to ischemic stroke among 71 750 women from the Nurses' Health Study and 42 823 men from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study who were free of cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, and cancer at baseline (1984 and 1986, respectively) through 2010 using a Cox proportional hazards model. Validated semiquantitative food frequency questionnaires were used to assess consumption of whole grain intake, including whole grain cold breakfast cereal, dark bread, oatmeal, brown rice, popcorn, bran, and germ. Self-reported incident cases of ischemic stroke were confirmed through medical record review.

Results: During 2 820 128 person-years of follow-up in the 2 cohorts, 2458 cases of ischemic stroke were identified and confirmed. Intake of total whole grains was not associated with risk of ischemic stroke after adjustment for covariates: the pooled hazard ratio (95% confidence interval) comparing extreme intake levels was 1.04 (0.91-1.19). However, intake of whole grain cold breakfast cereal and total bran was inversely associated with ischemic stroke after multivariate adjustment: the pooled hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals) were 0.88 (0.80-0.96; P_trend=0.008) and 0.89 (0.79-1.00; P_trend=0.004), respectively. Other whole grain foods were not associated with a lower risk of ischemic stroke.

Conclusions: Although overall consumption of whole grains was not associated with lower risk of ischemic stroke, greater consumption of whole grain cold breakfast cereal and bran was significantly associated with a lower risk of ischemic stroke. More studies are needed to replicate these associations between individual whole grain foods and risk of ischemic stroke among other populations.

Keywords: breakfast; cohort studies; meta-analysis; stroke; whole grains.

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