The effect of green leafy and cruciferous vegetable intake on the incidence of cardiovascular disease: A meta-analysis
Pollock RL
JRSM cardiovascular disease · 20 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Meta-analysis (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Clinical events such as disease or death
- Intake measured by
- Not stated
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- World Health Organization
Based on 1 listed funder(s) and full-text disclosure statement.
Publication
- Published
- 2016-01-01 · JRSM Cardiovasc Dis · vol. 5 · p. 2048004016661435
- Publisher
- SAGE Publishing
- Cited
- 40 citations · more than 60% of similar papers · 0.7× the field average
- References
- 27 works
- Access
- Open access (hybrid journal) · CC-BY-NC
- Research areas
- Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress · Nutritional Studies and Diet · Genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress
- Keywords
- Cruciferous vegetables, Leafy vegetables, Meta-analysis, Incidence (geometry), Leafy, Medicine, Relative risk, Confidence interval, Disease, Environmental health, Publication bias, Toxicology, Food science, Demography, Internal medicine, Biology, Horticulture, Mathematics, Cancer
1 author
From US
- Richard Lee Pollock · correspondingLamar State College–Port Arthur
Abstract
Does the consumption of green leafy vegetables including cruciferous vegetables significantly reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease? This research question was answered via employing the statistical methods of meta-analysis by synthesizing relevant worldwide studies that address the association between the consumption of green leafy vegetables and risk of incidence of said diseases. All meta-analysis calculations included determination of effect sizes of relative risk, and their respective 95% confidence intervals, heterogeneity of the studies, relative weights for each study, and significance (p) for each study. Eight studies met the inclusion criteria, which investigated the relationship between the incidences of total cardiovascular disease with the intake of green leafy vegetables. The overall effect size (random effect model) was: RR = 0.842 (95% CI = 0.753 to 0.941), p = 0.002, which indicates a significant 15.8% reduced incidence of cardiovascular disease.
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