U.S. ↔ Healthy Eating Index

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The Healthy Eating Index is used as a metric to evaluate dietary quality within the U.S. population as described in [1], and it is a primary subject of research regarding cardiometabolic indicators in the USA as noted in [2].

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Diet Quality Indices: Measures for Bridging Nutrition and Public Health link.springer.com Springer 1 fact

referenceFrank SM et al. (2024) published a study in PLoS One comparing the Planetary Health Diet Index, Healthy Eating Index-2015, and Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) in relation to dietary quality and cardiometabolic indicators in the USA.

Dietary Guidelines and Quality - Principles of Nutritional Assessment nutritionalassessment.org Arimond M, Deitchler M · nutritionalassessment.org 1 fact

measurementA difference or change of 5–6 points in Healthy Eating Index-2015 scores represents a 'moderate' effect size for the U.S. population, though this may not apply to other populations due to variations in score dispersion.