Diet and adipose tissue distributions: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Dietary quality affects cardiometabolic risk, yet its pathways of influence on regional adipose tissue depots involved in metabolic and diabetes risk are not well established. We aimed to investigate the relationship between dietary quality and regional adiposity.

Methods and results

We investigated 5079 individuals in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) who had food-frequency questionnaires and measurement of pericardial fat and hepatic attenuation at the baseline study visit in MESA, as well as a subgroup with imaging for visceral and subcutaneous fat (N = 1390). A dietary quality score (DietQuality) was constructed to include established food group constituents of a Mediterranean-type diet. Linear models estimated associations of dietary s

SUBMITTER: Shah RV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4788543 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature