Potato consumption and the risk of overall and cause specific mortality in the NIH-AARP study

Background Potato consumption has been hypothesized to be associated with higher risk of hypertension, diabetes, and colorectal cancer. Objective The aim of this study was to examine the association between potato consumption and the risk of overall and cause specific mortality in the large prospective National Institutes of Health–AARP (NIH-AARP) Study. Design The NIH-AARP study recruited 566,407 persons, aged 50–72 years in 1995–1996. We...