Table 1.
| Study | Race and Sex* |
Start Year | End year | Follow-up Years |
Final Age | Study Subjects |
Disease cases |
Person- years of Follow-up |
Incidence | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type 2 Diabetes | ||||||||||
| Nurses' Health Study 2 (NHS2) | WF | 1991 | 2005 | 14 | 50 | 88343 | 2359 | 1210903 | 1.95 | 11 |
| Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS) | WM | 1986 | 2006 | 20 | 72 | 39765 | 2648 | 702921 | 3.77 | 11 |
| Nurses' Health Study 1 (NHS1) | WF | 1984 | 2006 | 22 | 72 | 69120 | 5500 | 1404374 | 3.92 | 11 |
| Iowa Women's Health Study (IOWA) | WF | 1986 | 1992 | 6 | 68 | 35988 | 1141 | 202653 | 5.63 | 3 |
| Black Women's Health Study (BWHS)† | BW | 1995 | 2007 | 12 | 50 | 43960 | 3671 | 439048 | 8.36 | 12 |
| Coronary Heart Disease | ||||||||||
| Nurses' Health Study 1 (NHS1) | WF | 1984 | 1994 | 10 | 60 | 75521 | 761 | 729473 | 1.04 | 1 |
| Iowa Women's Health Study (IOWA) | WF | 1986 | 2003 | 17 | 78 | 27312 | 1034 | 454941 | 2.27 | 9 |
| Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS) | WM | 1986 | 2000 | 14 | 67 | 42850 | 1818 | 510182 | 3.56 | 6 |
| Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) | Both | 1988 | 1999 | 11 | 65 | 11940 | 535 | 131340 | 4.07 | 5 |
| Hypertension | ||||||||||
| Women's Health Study (WHS) | WF | 1994 | 2004 | 10 | 66 | 28926 | 8722 | 232763 | 37.47 | 7 |
| Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS) | WM | 1986 | 2004 | 18 | 71 | 31684 | 9227 | 345360 | 26.72 | 10 |
*
W=White, B=Black, F=Female, M=Male
†
T2D and whole grain data updated by personal communication – Dr Julie R. Palmer