title: A bean-free diet increases the risk of all-cause mortality among Taiwanese women: the role of the metabolic syndrome.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the associations with chronic disease risk and mortality of the consequences of bean-free diets in Taiwanese adults with regard to gender.
  
  
  METHODS
  A sub-sample of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) in 2001 agreed to physical examination in the subsequent year. This group then took part in the Taiwanese Survey of Hyperglycaemia, Hyperlipidaemia and Hypertension (TwSHHH) in 2002.
  
  
  METHODS
  Individual records were linked to the eventual death files from 2002 to 2008.
  
  
  METHODS
  Up to the end of 2008, a total of 2820 men and 2950 women were tracked by death registry over the 6·8 years of follow-up.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among 38,077 person-years, an average follow-up 6·5 years, 225 all-cause deaths were identified. Generalized linear models showed beans to be favourable for metabolic syndrome (other than for fasting glucose) in men; in women, beans were favourable for waist circumference and HbA1c. Cumulative logistic regression models for the effect of a bean-free diet on metabolic syndrome scores according to the Taiwanese-modified National Cholesterol Education Program-Adult Treatment Panel III (NCEP-tw) gave adjusted odds ratios of 1·83 in men and 1·45 in women. Cox regression models for the bean-free diet showed an increased hazard ratio for all-cause mortality among women (1·98, 95% CI 1·03, 3·81) but not men (1·28, 95% CI 0·76, 2·16).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A bean-free diet may play a role in developing the metabolic syndrome in both genders, and is a significant predictor of all-cause mortality in Taiwanese women but not men.
authors: Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, 35 Keyan Road, Zhunan Town, Miaoli County 35053, Taiwan, Republic of China. wcchang@nhri.org.tw
authors: Wan-Chi
authors: WC
authors: Chang
authors: Mark L
authors: ML
authors: Wahlqvist
authors: Hsing-Yi
authors: HY
authors: Chang
authors: Chih-Cheng
authors: CC
authors: Hsu
authors: Meei-Shyuan
authors: MS
authors: Lee
authors: Wuan-Szu
authors: WS
authors: Wang
authors: Chao A
authors: CA
authors: Hsiung
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis; D002423:Cause of Death / Q000639:trends*; D004032:Diet; D004522:Educational Status; D007887:Fabaceae; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D012923:Social Class; D013624:Taiwan
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose