Western and Modern Mexican dietary patterns are directly associated with incident hypertension in Mexican women: a prospective follow-up study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research has found that diet and dietary patterns are associated with blood pressure and hypertension. Limited research in this area has been conducted in a Mexican population.

Methods

We investigated the relation between dietary patterns (principal component analysis) and the incidence of self-reported treated hypertension in 62,913 women from the Mexican Teachers' Cohort, a large population-based cohort of female Mexican teachers, who were free of hypertension at baseline in 2006-2008 when diet was assessed using a food frequency questionnaire. Dietary patterns were categorized into quartiles and logistic regression models were fit.

Results

Participants were 42.1 ± 7.3 years old, had a BMI 27.0 ± 4.4 and a cumulative incidence of hypertension of 4.6%. Bet

SUBMITTER: Monge A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5813404 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature