Dietary Diversity, Dietary Patterns, and Cardiometabolic Health in University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT: Background: Cardiometabolic risk is increasingly observed in young adults, particularly during university years, and is not limited to individuals with elevated body mass index. Emerging evidence highlights the presence of normal weight obesity-characterized by excess adiposity and unfavorable body composition despite normal BMI-which may confer early metabolic vulnerability. Dietary diversity is often promoted as a marker of dietary adequacy; however, its relationship with adiposity, body composition, and muscular health remains inconsistent, particularly in Latin American populations. Moreover, few studies have directly contrasted dietary diversity indicators with empirically derived dietary patterns in relation to cardiometabolic and functional outcomes. Objective: To exam

SUBMITTER: Fonseca-Perez D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12899775 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature