Objective@#To understand the
fruit consumption of
adults of Qingdao and examine the
association between
fruit consumption and
stroke.@*
Methods@#We analyzed baseline data and
stroke incidence of the participants
who were
aged 30-79 years and had been enrolled into the
China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB) study from Qingdao city. Cox proportional
hazards regression model was conducted to estimate the
association of
fruit consumption with
risk of
stroke.@*Results@#A total of 35 509 participants were investgated in the
baseline survey. Ratio of
male to
female was 1∶1.27, and the average age was (50.3±10.2) years.
Respondents with higher frequency of
fruit consumption were younger, more
women, with
higher education level and higher
income (P<0.05). A total of 1 011 new cases of
stroke were observed, with a
stroke incidence of 387.63/100 000
person-years. Multivariate Cox
regression analysis showed that
fruit consumption had a protective effect on
stroke incidence. Compared to the
respondents who never consumed
fruit,
respondents who consumed
fruit more than 4 days per week had a 44% lower
risk of
stroke incidence (HR=0.56, 95%CI 0.50-0.62, P<0.05), and the
risk reduced by 46% (HR=0.54, 95%CI 0.46-0.64, P<0.05) and 42% (HR=0.58, 95%CI 0.52-0.69, P<0.05) in
male and
female, respectively. Further
adjustment for WC, BMI, SBP and random
blood glucose did not change the
association.@*Conclusion@#Increasing
fruit consumption can effectively decrease the
risk of
stroke. People should increase
fruit consumption advisably to set up reasonable and healthy
dietary habits.