Dietary risk factors

The current platform represents fibre, fruit, legumes, sodium and trans fat as separate source modules because they use different evidence and disease relationships.

Fibre publishes a direct diabetes incidence modifier and endpoint-specific cardiovascular effects. Fruit and legumes publish ischaemic-heart-disease and stroke effects. Sodium publishes a blood-pressure change; the reconciliation module converts that change into endpoint-specific cardiovascular incidence effects. Trans fat publishes an acute mortality effect that changes acute case fatality rather than incidence.

Each Appendix 3 dietary intervention owns its own coverage and effect component. The source risk-factor module retains the shared exposure calculation, while the reconciliation module binds the published effect to the matching disease input.

These routes are declared separately so a new dietary source or disease relationship can state its own units and method instead of being treated as a generic diet effect.