For the data geeks, I am not sure what all this means…
New study released 4/26/2017 in Japan shows “prudent” diet and Westernized diet both associated with a decreased risk of all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in Japanese adults. The traditional diet of fish, fermented veggies and rice was not associated with risks of CVD.
Results
A prudent dietary pattern, which was characterized by high intake of vegetables, fruit, soy products, potatoes, seaweed, mushrooms, and fish, was significantly associated with decreased risk of all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality. The multivariable-adjusted hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals) of all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality for the highest versus lowest quartile of the prudent dietary pattern score were 0.82 (0.77 to 0.86) and 0.72 (0.64 to 0.79), respectively (P for trend <0.001 in both). A Westernized dietary pattern, characterized by high intake of meat, processed meat, bread, and dairy products, was also inversely associated with risk of all-cause, cancer, and cardiovascular disease mortality. A traditional Japanese dietary pattern was not associated with these risks.
Conclusions
The prudent and Westernized dietary patterns were associated with a decreased risk of all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in Japanese adults.
(fwiw, here’s a garbled/lite translation of a probably poorly written Asahi Shimbun story on this news. I think the lede has it backwards: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201705250045.html)