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Dietary Inflammatory Index and non-communicable disease risk: A narrative review
Phillips et al. (2019) point out that there have been 480,000 references to inflammation by articles on diet and health in the National Library of Medicine database, in addition to 30,000+ peer-reviewed articles published on the relationship between diet, inflammation, and health outcomes. With this vast amount of evidence, it is now established that chronic systemic inflammation is associated with most non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, cancers, respiratory and musculoskeletal disorders. Since dietary constituents can influence the level of inflammation in a person, a dietary inflammatory index (DII) has been recently created to calculate the inflammatory potential of diet. While evidence linking this dietary inflammatory index with the risk of various NCDs has grown, this review aims to inspect the current state of research regarding DII’s relationship with cancers, neurodevelopment, mental health outcomes, as well as cardiometabolic, respiratory and musculoskeletal diseases. This article collected the findings of recent studies, discussed possible underlying mechanisms, and commented on future avenues of investigation in this field of nutritional research. [NPIDs: insomnia, sleep, sleep disorders, inflammation, non-communicable disease, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory disorders, musculoskeletal disorders, inflammatory index, cancer, neurodevelopment, cardiometabolic diseases, respiration, musculoskeletal]
Year: 2019
