Prospective associations between dietary patterns and body composition changes in European children: the IDEFICS study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe dietary patterns by applying cluster analysis and to describe the cluster memberships of European children over time and their association with body composition changes.

Design

The analyses included k-means clustering based on the similarities between the relative frequencies of consumption of forty-three food items and regression models were fitted to assess the association between dietary patterns and body composition changes.

Setting

Primary schools and pre-schools of selected regions in Italy, Estonia, Cyprus, Belgium, Sweden, Hungary, Germany and Spain.

Subjects

Participants (n 8341) in the baseline (2-9 years old) and follow-up (4-11 years old) surveys of the IDEFICS (Identification and prevention of Dietary- and lifestyle-induced he

SUBMITTER: Fernandez-Alvira JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10261439 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature