Sweet potatoes and cardiovascular disease.

Data about sweet potatoes was provided by one cohort. No association was found with total stroke mortality.


Author	Cohort name	Subjects	Years of follow-up	Cases	End point	Consumption of	Relative Risk (RR)	Adjustments
16) Ross RK (1997)	No cohort name defined	18,244 men aged 45-64 from Shanghai. (China)	1986-89 to 1994	245?	Stroke/cerebrovascular accident death	pale sweet potato in season; dark sweet potato in season	No significant association was found when evaluated either as median levels of daily intake or as tertiles of intake frequencies (No data shown).	Education, marital status, BMI, lifetime cigarette smoking, lifetime ethanol intake, and history of hypertension.

Cardiovascular disease & Diet. A systematic review.