For the study, researchers
measured the level
of calcium in the coronary arteries during stress testing using two common diagnostic tests — positron emission tomography, or PET, and
computed tomography, or CT — to determine a patient's
risk of heart disease.
Although our primary exposures
of interest were GI and glycemic load as
risk factors for depression, we also investigated other
measures of carbohydrate consumption
computed from average daily intakes
of foods and beverages reported on the WHI FFQ, including dietary added sugar, total sugars, specific types
of sugars (glucose, sucrose, lactose, fructose), starch, and total carbohydrate.