RT Journal
A1 Rathod AD, Bharadwaj AS, Badheka AO, Kizilbash M, Afonso L
T1 HEalthy eating index and mortality in a nationally representative elderly cohort
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2012
FD February 13
VO 172
IS 3
SP 275
OP 277
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.1031
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.1031
AB 
The Healthy Eating Index (HEI) is a tool developed by the US Department of Agriculture's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion in 1995 for evaluating diet quality and monitoring changes in dietary practices in the US population.1 Prior studies have demonstrated an association between a “good” HEI score and lower incidence of cardiovascular disease2- 3 and accompanying risk factors.4- 5 However, literature on the prognostic utility of HEI in an exclusively geriatric population is sparse. We sought to investigate whether there is a correlation between favorable HEI scores and all-cause as well as cardiovascular mortality in the elderly US population.