Dietary fruits and vegetables and risk of cardiovascular diseases in elderly Chinese.

"Conflicts of interest : None declared. Key pointsIn 2019, 523 million people globally were living with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and 18.6 million people globally died from CVD, further, the burden of CVD continues to rise in middle- and low-income countries.The high prevalence of CVD places an enormous economic and clinical burden on patients and healthcare systems.Although public nutrition recommendations of increasing fruit and vegetable intake have been made, the overall intake of people is still not satisfactory.Surveys show that low fruit and vegetable intake was the leading cause of death from cardiometabolic disease in China during 2010–12.Only a few studies have examined the association between dietary fruits and vegetables and the risk of CVD among Asian populations, but these studies mainly focused on middle-aged populations."

"Funding This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81870258 and 72061137004). The collection of the CLHLS datasets analyzed in this article was jointly supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFC2000400), the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (P01AG031719) and Duke/Duke-NUS [RECA(Pilot)/2019/0051 to Y.Z.]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish or manuscript preparation. Conflicts of interest: None declared. Key pointsIn 2019, 523 million people globally were living with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and 18.6 million people globally died from CVD, further, the burden of CVD continues to rise in middle- and low-income countries.The high prevalence of CVD places an enormous economic and clinical burden on patients and healthcare systems.Although public nutrition recommendations of increasing fruit and vegetable intake have been made, the overall intake of people is still not satisfactory.Surveys show that low fruit and vegetable intake was the leading cause of death from cardiometabolic disease in China during 2010–12.Only a few studies have examined the association between dietary fruits and vegetables and the risk of CVD among Asian populations, but these studies mainly focused on middle-aged populations."