%0 Journal Article %T Dietary Inflammatory Index is Associated with Excessive Body Weight and Dietary Patterns in Subjects with Cardiometabolic Risk %A Brenda Kelly Souza Silveira %A Carla de Oliveira Barbosa Rosa %A Helen Hermana Mir %A James R Hebert %A Juliana Farias de Novaes %A J¨¦ssica Viana Hinkelmann %A Mariana De Santis Filgueiras %A Nitin Shivappa %A Talitha Silva Meneguelli %A a Hermsdorff %J Journal of Food and Nutrition Research %D 2019 %R 10.12691/jfnr-7-7-2 %X Unhealthy eating habits can trigger chronic inflammation in organs and tissues, and subsequent cardiovascular risk. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the potential association of Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII£¿) score with cardiometabolic risk factors and a priori and a posteriori dietary patterns in adults and elderly Brazilians (42 ¡À 16 years) from a health care program. This cross-sectional study was carried out with 248 individuals (138 women and 110 men) from a Cardiovascular Health Care Program of the Universidade Federal de Vi£¿osa (PROCARDIO-UFV, ReBEC ID number: RBR-5n4y2g). Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, lifestyle and anthropometric data were assessed by standardized protocols. DII scores were calculated from a 24 h-recall, and dietary patterns were determined by a posteriori method, as Principal Component Analysis (PAC), and a priori method, as Healthy Eating Index (HEI). The mean DII was 0.15 ¡À 0.84. The subjects included in the most pro-inflammatory category(3rd tertile) were more likely to be individuals with excessive body weight, increased waist-to-hip ratio and lower quality diet assessed by PAC and HEI. The most pro-inflammatory diet was associated with excessive body weight as well as other worse dietary patterns %U http://www.sciepub.com/JFNR/abstract/10678