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Healthy diet may lower heart disease risk after cancer (opens in a new tab)
medicalxpress.com · 2026-10-29
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Healthy diet may lower heart disease risk after cancer
medicalxpress.com · 2026-10-29
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Claim 1 of 5Not checkedEating a healthy diet is associated with a reduced risk of heart disease and death among cancer survivors.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 2 of 5Not checkedResearchers analyzed data from more than 8,700 cancer survivors in the UK Biobank cohort who did not have cardiovascular disease initially, and after about 12 years of follow-up, 1,116 had experienced a cardiovascular disease event.View evidenceHide evidence
As statedmore than 8,700 participants; 12 years follow-up; 1,116 cardiovascular disease events
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Claim 3 of 5Not checkedMediterranean, MIND, AHEI-2010, DASH, healthful plant-based, and reversed energy-adjusted diet inflammatory index dietary patterns all showed protective associations against cardiovascular events, while a healthy low-fat diet showed no significant benefit.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 4 of 5Not checkedAHEI-2010 was associated with a lower risk of ischemic heart disease and stroke, DASH with a lower risk of heart failure, and MIND with the lowest hazard ratio for all-cause mortality and the largest gains in life expectancy.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 5 of 5Not checkedParticipants with the highest adherence to a healthy diet had a life expectancy 1.66 to 3.32 years longer than those with low adherence.View evidenceHide evidence
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PubMed, Crossref, Europe PMC · 15 candidate papers
Scores to monitor inflammatory effects of a diet: a useful concept?
Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care · 2026 · PubMed
Dietary patterns, biomarkers of atherosclerosis, cardiovascular and all-cause mortality
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Post-diagnostic ultra-processed food exposure in gastrointestinal cancers: scoping review with narrative synthesis and clinical implications.
2026 · Europe PMC
Association of Dietary Patterns and Genetic Risk With Cardiovascular Disease in UK Biobank Cancer Survivors.
Journal of the American Heart Association · 2026 · PubMed, Europe PMC
Post-diagnosis dietary patterns among cancer survivors in relation to all-cause mortality and cancer-specific mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies v1
2023 · Crossref