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Egg Consumption and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Men and Women

  1. Luc Djoussé, MD, DSC1,
  2. J. Michael Gaziano, MD123,
  3. Julie E. Buring, SCD1245 and
  4. I-Min Lee, MBBS, SCD25
  1. 1Division of Aging, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
  2. 2Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
  3. 3Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology and Research Information Center (MAVERIC), Boston Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
  4. 4Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
  5. 5Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
  1. Corresponding author: Luc Djoussé, ldjousse{at}rics.bwh.harvard.edu
Diabetes Care 2009 Feb; 32(2): 295-300. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc08-1271
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OBJECTIVE—Whereas limited and inconsistent findings have been reported on the relation between dietary cholesterol or egg consumption and fasting glucose, no previous study has examined the association between egg consumption and type 2 diabetes. This project sought to examine the relation between egg intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes in two large prospective cohorts.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—In this prospective study, we used data from two completed randomized trials: 20,703 men from the Physicians' Health Study I (1982–2007) and 36,295 women from the Women's Health Study (1992–2007). Egg consumption was ascertained using questionnaires, and we used the Cox proportional hazard model to estimate relative risks of type 2 diabetes.

RESULTS—During mean follow-up of 20.0 years in men and 11.7 years in women, 1,921 men and 2,112 women developed type 2 diabetes. Compared with no egg consumption, multivariable adjusted hazard ratios for type 2 diabetes were 1.09 (95% CI 0.87–1.37), 1.09 (0.88–1.34), 1.18 (0.95–1.45), 1.46 (1.14–1.86), and 1.58 (1.25–2.01) for consumption of <1, 1, 2–4, 5–6, and ≥7 eggs/week, respectively, in men (P for trend <0.0001). Corresponding multivariable hazard ratios for women were 1.06 (0.92–1.22), 0.97 (0.83–1.12), 1.19 (1.03–1.38), 1.18 (0.88–1.58), and 1.77 (1.28–2.43), respectively (P for trend <0.0001).

CONCLUSIONS—These data suggest that high levels of egg consumption (daily) are associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes in men and women. Confirmation of these findings in other populations is warranted.

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  • Published ahead of print at http://care.diabetesjournals.org on 18 November 2008.

    Readers may use this article as long as the work is properly cited, the use is educational and not for profit, and the work is not altered. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ for details.

    The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked “advertisement” in accordance with 18 U.S.C Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

    • Accepted November 8, 2008.
    • Received July 9, 2008.
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Luc Djoussé, J. Michael Gaziano, Julie E. Buring, I-Min Lee
Diabetes Care Feb 2009, 32 (2) 295-300; DOI: 10.2337/dc08-1271
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