Associations of an empirical dietary pattern with cardiometabolic risk factors in Malaysian adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aimed to identify a dietary pattern (DP) characterised mainly by high intakes of free sugar and other nutrients hypothesised to be associated with obesity such as dietary energy density (DED), percentage of energy from total fat and fibre density in adolescents from three southern states of Peninsular Malaysia, and its associations with cardiometabolic risk factors.

Methods

This is a cross-sectional study among 335 adolescents who provided both dietary information assessed using a validated food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) and biochemical parameters including lipid profile, blood glucose, serum insulin and homeostatic model assessment-insulin resistance (HOMA-IR). Anthropometric measurements included weight (kg), height (cm) and waist circumference (c

SUBMITTER: Emi NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7140313 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature