Breakfast quality and cardiometabolic risk profiles in an upper middle-aged German population.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

Little is known about relation of overall breakfast quality with cardiometabolic risk factors. Therefore, this study aimed to explore sex-specific associations between breakfast quality and cardiometabolic risk profiles in a sample of an upper middle-aged German population.

Subjects/methods

Cardiometabolic profiles of 339 men and 329 women were cross-sectionally assessed using an overall biomarker score (BScore), glycated hemoglobin (HbA1_c), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), triglycerides (TG), blood pressure, body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC). Overall breakfast quality was assessed by using (i) an a-priori defined breakfast quality score (BQS) and (ii) data-driven brea

SUBMITTER: Iqbal K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5672061 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature