Background & aims Blood lipids play a critical role in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes,
and they are closely related to dietary factors. However, the associations between blood
lipids-related dietary patterns and risk of type 2 diabetes are controversial and not fully clear.
In this study, we aimed to derive dietary patterns that explained variation in blood lipids and
to investigate their associations with incident type 2 diabetes. Methods The analysis was
based on 39,000 women and 25,777 men participating in the Lifelines cohort study (aged 18 …