PMID- 35820762 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220714 LR - 20220729 IS - 2044-6055 (Electronic) IS - 2044-6055 (Linking) VI - 12 IP - 7 DP - 2022 Jul 12 TI - Dietary antioxidant consumption and the risk of type 2 diabetes in South Korean adults: a prospective cohort study based on the Health Examinees study. PG - e065073 LID - 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065073 [doi] LID - e065073 AB - OBJECTIVES: Antioxidants are common dietary compounds with multiple health benefits. This study aimed to identify the association between dietary antioxidant consumption and the incidence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) mellitus (defined using the Korean Diabetes Association criteria) in South Korean adults. DESIGN: Baseline and follow-up data from the Health Examinees (HEXA) study, a large-scale community-based genomic cohort study conducted in South Korea SETTING: A South Korean community. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 20 594 participants, aged 40-79 years, who participated in the baseline and follow-up surveys of the HEXA study were included. After an average of 5 years of follow-up, there were 332 men and 360 women with T2D. RESULTS: Participants with the highest total flavonoid consumption (Q5) had a lower risk of T2D (men: HR 0.63; 95% CI 0.42 to 0.93; p value for trend=0.0169; and women: HR 0.54; 95% CI 0.438 to 0.78; p value for trend=0.0001) than those with the lowest consumption (Q1). Dietary total antioxidant capacity was significantly inversely associated with the development of T2D mellitus in women participants alone (HR 0.58; 95% CI 0.40 to 0.83; p value for trend=0.0004). Stratified analyses according to age and body mass index (BMI) showed that dietary total flavonoid consumption and total antioxidant capacity had a negative association with the development of T2D in women aged >52 years and women with BMI >25 kg/m(2). CONCLUSIONS: Dietary flavonoid consumption and total antioxidant capacity were associated with a lower risk of T2D in South Korean adults, especially in women aged >52 years and overweight. The findings of this study may provide reference data for the modification of dietary guidelines for South Koreans. CI - (c) Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. FAU - Tan, Li-Juan AU - Tan LJ AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8970-0884 AD - Department of Food and Nutrition, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea. FAU - Hwang, Su Bin AU - Hwang SB AD - Department of Food and Nutrition, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea. FAU - Jun, Shinyoung AU - Jun S AD - Department of Cancer Biomedical Science, National Cancer Center Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, Goyang, South Korea. FAU - Joung, Hyojee AU - Joung H AD - Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. FAU - Shin, Sangah AU - Shin S AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0094-1014 AD - Department of Food and Nutrition, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea ivory8320@cau.ac.kr. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220712 PL - England TA - BMJ Open JT - BMJ open JID - 101552874 RN - 0 (Antioxidants) RN - 0 (Flavonoids) SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Antioxidants/*chemistry MH - Cohort Studies MH - *Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/epidemiology/etiology MH - Female MH - Flavonoids/*chemistry/metabolism MH - Humans MH - Male MH - Prospective Studies MH - Republic of Korea/epidemiology PMC - PMC9277397 OTO - NOTNLM OT - diabetes & endocrinology OT - epidemiology OT - nutrition & dietetics OT - public health OT - statistics & research methods COIS- Competing interests: None declared. EDAT- 2022/07/13 06:00 MHDA- 2022/07/15 06:00 PMCR- 2022/07/12 CRDT- 2022/07/12 21:04 PHST- 2022/07/12 21:04 [entrez] PHST- 2022/07/13 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/07/15 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/07/12 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - bmjopen-2022-065073 [pii] AID - 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065073 [doi] PST - epublish SO - BMJ Open. 2022 Jul 12;12(7):e065073. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065073.