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• Diet quality scores, such as the Healthy Eating Index, Alternate Healthy Eating Index, and Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) score, are associated with health outcomes.
• Four non-communicable disease (NCD) dietary metrics—the Mediterranean Diet Score, Alternative Healthy Eating Index, Healthy Eating Index, and Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension—have convincing evidence of protective associations with specific NCD outcomes, including mortality, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and total cancer.
• Morze J, Danielewicz A, Hoffmann G, Schwingshackl L (2020) published a systematic review and meta-analysis in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics titled 'Diet quality as assessed by the Healthy Eating Index, Alternate Healthy Eating Index, dietary approaches to stop hypertension score, and health outcomes: a second update of a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies'.
• The Alternate Healthy Eating Index showed stronger associations with cardiovascular disease outcomes for both men and women compared to the original Healthy Eating Index, according to research by McCullough et al. (2000).
• Schwingshackl, Bogensberger, and Hoffmann (2018) performed an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies assessing diet quality via the Healthy Eating Index, Alternate Healthy Eating Index, and the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) score in relation to health outcomes.
• The Mediterranean Diet Score, the Alternative Healthy Eating Index, the Healthy Eating Index, and the Dietary Approaches to Stop [Hypertension] are identified as four dietary metrics used for non-communicable disease (NCD) research.
• Onvani S, Haghighatdoost F, Surkan PJ et al. (2017) published a meta-analysis in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics titled 'Adherence to the Healthy Eating Index and Alternative Healthy Eating Index dietary patterns and mortality from all causes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer: a meta-analysis of observational studies'.