What’s known?
This is a novel study in women for evaluating the association between the dietary inflammatory index and sICAM-1, sVCAM-1, and E-selectin.
One previous study that assessed the relationship between DII and adhesion molecules including ICAM-1 VCAM-1 in adolescent. They found a positive association between DII and sVCAM-1, however, similarly to our finding, they did not represent any association between DII and sICAM-1 concentrations. Moreover, some recent studies evaluated the correlation between DII and cardiovascular diseases. However, they did not find any association between DII and cardiovascular ischemic diseases, myocardial infarction in women inversely men. Although, some studies found a positive relationship between DII and carotid plaque severity, diabetic mellitus, high blood pressure, cholesterol and obesity.