Dietary inflammatory index and all-cause mortality in large cohorts: The SUN and PREDIMED studies

Inflammation is known to be related to the leading causes of death including cardiovascular disease, several types of cancer, obesity, type 2 diabetes, depression-suicide and other chronic diseases. In the context of whole dietary patterns, the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII®) was developed to appraise the inflammatory potential of the diet.We prospectively assessed the association between DII scores and all-cause mortality in two large Spanish...