The dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH) dietary pattern in childhood in relation to cardiometabolic risk in adolescence and early adulthood in the ALSPAC birth cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the relationship between the dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH)-style dietary patterns in childhood and cardiometabolic risk (CMR) in adolescence/early adulthood.

Design

Data were obtained from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) prospective cohort. Diet diary data collected at 7, 10 and 13 years were used to calculate DASH-style diet scores (DDS). Multivariable linear regression models were used to investigate the associations between the DDS at 7, 10 and 13 years and CMR scores, calculated at 17 and 24 years.

Setting

The ALSPAC cohort included children born in south-west England in 1991-1992.

Participants

Children with complete dietary, covariate and cardiometabolic data at 17 (n 1,526) and

SUBMITTER: Loizou P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10966836 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature