White rice intake and incidence of type-2 diabetes: analysis of two prospective cohort studies from Iran

• Main Authors: Asieh Golozar (Author), Davood Khalili (Author), Arash Etemadi (Author), Hossein Poustchi (Author), Akbar Fazeltabar (Author), Firoozeh Hosseini (Author), Farin Kamangar (Author), Masoud Khoshnia (Author), Farhad Islami (Author), Farzad Hadaegh (Author), Paul Brennan (Author), Paolo Boffetta (Author), Christian C. Abnet (Author), Sanford M. Dawsey (Author), Fereidoun Azizi (Author), Reza Malekzadeh (Author), Goodarz Danaei (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Refined grains and white rice have been associated with elevated risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). In this study, we sought to quantify the effect of white rice intake on incident T2DM in two prospective population-based cohort studies from Iran, where white rice is one of...