Egg Intake and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

Egg Intake and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in a Low Meat Intake Population

This is a longitudinal study that will collect demographic, anthropometric and dietary data to determine the relationships between meat and egg intake and the incidence of Type 2 Diabetes.

Subjects of the Adventist Health Study who are non-diabetic will provide demographic, anthropometric and dietary data at baseline. Meat and egg intake will be assessed with a validated quantitative food frequency intake questionnaire. The relationship between meat and egg intake and the incidence of Type 2 Diabetes will be determined using multivariate-adjusted logistic regression.

Inclusion Criteria:

• AHS 2 Participants who filled out Hospital History Questionnaire version 3 or 5 Age > 30 years

Exclusion Criteria:

• Subjects with missing values in dietary variables were excluded from the analytic sample,
• missing gender
• age < 30 years
• improbable questionnaire response patterns
• extremes of BMI (less than 16 or greater than 60)
• estimated energy intake (less than 500 or greater than 4,500 kcal/d)
• existing cases of type 1 or type 2 diabetes at baseline
• inconsistent reports of T2D between HHQ version 3 and 5