ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2024
Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Risk of Incident Hypertension in US Middle-Aged Adults.
Article in Journal of the American Heart Association, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Association of Food Insecurity and Risk of Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Large-Scale Cohorts.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- Potato Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in a Harmonized Analysis of Seven Prospective Cohorts.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- Ultra-Processed Food Consumption Patterns and Their Association with Blood Pressure Among Young Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Comparison of food processing classification frameworks in the NHANES 2017-2018.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2026Article
- Trends in Hypertension Prevalence and Control in the United States Over 25 Years.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2026Article
- Not all ultra-processed foods are created equal: a review.BMJ nutrition, prevention & health · 2026Review
- Is obesity the missing link? Ultra-processed foods and metabolic and reproductive outcomes: a narrative review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Review
- The impact of ultra-processed foods on pediatric health.Obesity pillars · 2025Review
- Ultra-Processed Food Consumption Is Associated with an Increased Risk of Abdominal Obesity in Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study in Shanghai.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Processed Food Consumption Based on the NOVA Classification Is Associated With Elevated Cardiometabolic Risk in Turkish Adults.Food science & nutrition · 2025Article
- Ultraprocessed Food and Risk of Cancer: Mechanistic Pathways and Public Health Implications.Cancers · 2025Review
- Gender Differences in Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Its Association with Obesity Among Korean Adults.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Closing the Gap: Digital Innovations to Address Hypertension Disparities.Current cardiology reports · 2025Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundConsumption of ultra-processed food, which is manufactured food that is high in additives and sparse in intact foods, is adversely associated with cardiovascular health, primarily in non-US study populations. We aimed to estimate the association between ultra-processed food consumption and incident hypertension in middle-aged adults in the United States. METHODS AND
resultsWe included 8923 ARIC (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities) study participants who were hypertension free at baseline and had complete dietary, covariate, and hypertension data from visit 1 (1987-1989). Over a median (25th, 75th percentile) follow-up of 13 (6-21) years, 79% of participants developed hypertension. Participants in the highest quartile of ultra-processed food consumption had 15% higher risk of incident hypertension than those in the lowest quartile (hazard ratio [HR], 1.15 [95% CI, 1.08-1.23]). Participants in the highest quartile of consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, red and processed meat, and margarine had 16% (HR, 1.16 [95% CI, 1.08-1.24]; p-trend <0.001), 10% (HR, 1.10 [95% CI, 1.03-1.19];
conclusionsHigh consumption of ultra-processed foods, specifically of sugar-sweetened beverages, red and processed meat, and margarine, was associated with a higher incidence of hypertension, whereas minimally or unprocessed food consumption was associated with lower hypertension risk.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.