• Pro-inflammatory diet during pre-, early perimenopause raises fracture risk

    8 days ago - By Healio

    Women who maintained a more pro-inflammatory diet before menopause and in early perimenopause had increased risk for future fractures, according to data from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation.
    “At the present time, whether a more inflammatory dietary pattern is associated with greater fracture risk is uncertain: Results from several studies of mostly older adults are inconsistent,” Albert Shieh, MD, endocrinologist in the department of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and colleagues wrote. “Moreover, to our knowledge, there have been
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