Association between diet quality, dietary patterns and cardiometabolic health in Australian adults: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diet quality indices score dietary intakes against recommendations, whereas dietary patterns consider the pattern and combination of dietary intakes. Studies evaluating both methodologies in relation to cardiometabolic health in a nationally representative sample are limited. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between diet quality, dietary patterns and markers of cardiometabolic health in Australian adults.

Methods

Dietary data, using two 24-h dietary recalls, were collected from adults in the cross-sectional Australian Health Survey 2011-2013 (n = 2121; 46.4 (SE 0.48) years). Diet quality was estimated using the Dietary Guideline Index (DGI). Dietary patterns (DPs), derived using reduced rank regression, were estimated using fiber de

SUBMITTER: Livingstone KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5809905 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature