Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Hypertension Risk in the REGARDS Cohort Study
Oladele C, Khandpur N, Johnson S, Yuan Y, Wambugu V, Plante T, Lovasi G, Judd S. Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Hypertension Risk in the REGARDS Cohort Study. Hypertension 2024, 81: 2520-2528. PMID: 39417239, PMCID: PMC11578763, DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.123.22341.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchUltraprocessed foods consumptionUltraprocessed foodsIncident hypertensionHypertension riskConsumption quartileHypertension incidenceConsumption of ultraprocessed foodsWhite participantsLowest quartileCohort studyNOVA classification systemAssociated with increased hypertension riskOdds of incident hypertensionOdds of hypertensionVisit 1Racial disparitiesLongitudinal associationsBlack participantsDietary informationLogistic regressionRacial differencesQuartileVisit 2ParticipantsVisits