**2. Materials and Methods**

#### *2.1. Study Population*

This cohort study was conducted following the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) reporting guideline for cohort studies [30]. The participants included in our analysis were extracted from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a periodically conducted survey that obtains nationally-representative samples of the general Americans with a complex, multistage probability design [31]. In this study, we extracted participants from the 2007–2014 cycle. Adults with complete 24-h dietary data were included. The exclusion criteria included: (1) age <20 years old; (2) participants with pregnancy; and (3) participants without endpoint information.
