Cross-sectional association between diet quality and cardiometabolic risk by education level in Mexican adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Understanding the association between diet quality and cardiometabolic risk by education level is important for preventing increased cardiometabolic risk in the Mexican population, especially considering pre-existing disparities in diet quality. The present study examined the cross-sectional association of overall diet quality with cardiometabolic risk, overall and by education level, among Mexican men and women.

Design

Cardiometabolic risk was defined by using biomarkers and diet quality by the Mexican Diet Quality Index. We computed sex-specific multivariable logistic regression models.

Setting

Mexico.

Participants

Mexican men (n 634) and women (n 875) participating in the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey 2012.

Results

We did not

SUBMITTER: Lopez-Olmedo N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6946903 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature