Milk consumption and cardiovascular risk factors in older Chinese: the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dairy products consumption is increasingly common globally. Most of the evidence concerning dairy products comes from observational studies in western populations which are inevitably open to confounding. To triangulate the evidence concerning dairy products, we examined the associations of whole cow's milk consumption with cardiovascular risk factors in a non-Western setting with a different pattern of milk consumption and cardiovascular diseases from Western populations.

Methods

We used multivariable censored linear or logistic regression to examine cross-sectionally the adjusted associations of whole cow's milk consumption (none (n = 14892), 1-3/week (n = 2689) and 3+/week (n = 2754)) with cardiovascular risk factors in Chinese (≥50 years) in the Guangzhou Biob

SUBMITTER: Sun Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3885601 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature