Healthy Eating Index ↔ diet quality

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The Healthy Eating Index is a primary tool used to measure and assess diet quality, as evidenced by its inclusion in composite indicators for diet quality [1] and its application in studies comparing diet quality across different dietary patterns [2], [3], and [4].

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Diet Quality Indices: Measures for Bridging Nutrition and Public Health link.springer.com Springer 2 facts

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.

claimBruns et al. (2022) applied a modified Healthy Eating Index (HEI-Flex) to compare the diet quality of flexitarians, vegans, and omnivores in Germany.

Editorial: Inflammation and chronic disease - Frontiers frontiersin.org Frontiers 1 fact

claimInflammation mediates the relationship between diet quality, as assessed by the Healthy Eating Index-2015, and metabolic syndrome.

A Scoping Review of Indicators for Sustainable Healthy Diets frontiersin.org Frontiers 1 fact

claimThe most frequently used composite indicators for assessing diet quality include healthy eating indices based on national dietary guidelines (such as the Brazilian Healthy Eating Index, the DHD15-Index, and the Healthy Eating Index), Mediterranean Diet Scores, and the PANDiet score.