BACKGROUND: The Overall Nutritional Quality Index (ONQI) algorithm is a nutrient profiling scheme that incorporates more than 30 dietary components, and it aims to rank foods by relative healthfulness. PURPOSE: To assess whether diets with a higher ONQI score predict lower risk of major @entity102 risk. METHODS: A total of 62,284 healthy @entity1 from the Nurses' Health Study and 42,382 healthy @entity1 from Health Professionals Follow-Up Study were followed from 1986 to 2006. Dietary data were collected from questionnaires at baseline. Each food was scored by the ONQI algorithm and the average ONQI score for the diet consumed by each @entity1 was computed. @entity102 was defined as @entity65 ( @entity65 ); @entity5 ; @entity6 ; and nontrauma @entity204 . Data analysis was conducted in 2010. RESULTS: A total of 20,004 and 13,520 @entity102 events were documented in @entity1 and @entity1 , respectively. The ONQI score was inversely associated with risk of @entity102 , @entity65 , @entity6 , and all-cause mortality (p-trend <=0.01), but not @entity5 , in both cohorts. @entity1 in the highest compared to lowest quintile of the ONQI score had a relative risk (95% CI) of 0.91 (0.87, 0.95) for @entity102 ; 0.79 (0.71, 0.88) for @entity65 ; 0.86 (0.78, 0.96) for @entity6 ; and 0.90 (0.84, 0.97) for all-cause mortality. @entity1 in the highest compared to lowest quintile of the ONQI score had a relative risk of 0.88 (0.83, 0.93) for @entity102 ; 0.77 (0.70, 0.85) for @entity65 ; 0.84 (0.73, 0.96) for @entity6 ; and 0.89 (0.83, 0.97) for all-cause mortality. CONCLUSIONS: Consumption of foods that lead to a higher score for the ONQI scoring system is associated with modestly lower risk of @entity102 and all-cause mortality.

The association between a nutritional quality index and risk of XXXX .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['women', 'participant', 'Women', 'Men', 'men'] @entity6 :: ('MESH:D003920', 'Disease') :: ['diabetes'] @entity5 :: ('MESH:D009369', 'Disease') :: ['cancer'] @entity102 :: ('MESH:D002908', 'Disease') :: ['chronic disease', 'total chronic disease', 'Total chronic disease'] @entity204 :: ('MESH:D003643', 'Disease') :: ['death'] @entity65 :: ('MESH:D002318', 'Disease') :: ['CVD', 'cardiovascular disease']
@entity102 :: (MESH:D002908,Disease) :: ['chronic disease']
