Healthy diet attenuates the cardiovascular risk associated with elevated monocytes: a prospective cohort study (opens in new tab)

BackgroundElevated monocyte counts predict cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, but whether this inflammatory risk is modifiable by dietary patterns remains unknown. We investigated whether dietary quality modifies the association between peripheral monocyte counts and incident CVD and explored potential proteomic mechanisms.MethodsThis prospective cohort study included 26,585 participants from the UK Biobank without baseline CVD. Dietary quality was assessed using a Diet Quality Index (DQI) in...