Omega-6 fatty acid biomarkers and incident type 2 diabetes: pooled analysis of individual-level data for 39  740 adults from 20 prospective cohort studies

Publication date: Available online 12 October 2017 Source:The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Author(s): Jason H Y Wu, Matti Marklund, Fumiaki Imamura, Nathan Tintle, Andres V Ardisson Korat, Janette de Goede, Xia Zhou, Wei-Sin Yang, Marcia C de Oliveira Otto, Janine Kröger, Waqas Qureshi, Jyrki K Virtanen, Julie K Bassett, Alexis C Frazier-Wood, Maria Lankinen, Rachel A Murphy, Kalina Rajaobelina, Liana C Del Gobbo, Nita G Forouhi, Robert Luben, Kay-Tee Khaw, Nick Wareham, Anya Kalsbeek, Jenna Veenstra, Juhua Luo, Frank B Hu, Hung-Ju Lin, David S Siscovick, Heiner Boeing, Tzu-An Chen, Brian Steffen, Lyn M Steffen, Allison Hodge, Gudny Eriksdottir, Albert V Smith, Vilmunder Gudnason, Tamara B Harris, Ingeborg A Brouwer, Claudine Berr, Catherine Helmer, Cecilia Samieri, Markku Laakso, Michael Y Tsai, Graham G Giles, Tarja Nurmi, Lynne Wagenknecht, Matthias B Schulze, Rozenn N Lemaitre, Kuo-Liong Chien, Sabita S Soedamah-Muthu, Johanna M Geleijnse, Qi Sun, William S Harris, Lars Lind, Johan Ärnlöv, Ulf Riserus, Renata Micha, Dariush Mozaffarian Background The metabolic effects of omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) remain contentious, and little evidence is available regarding their potential role in primary prevention of type 2 diabetes. We aimed to assess the associations of linoleic acid and arachidonic acid biomarkers with incident type 2 diabetes. Methods We did a pooled analysis of new, harmon...
Source: The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology - Category: Endocrinology Source Type: research