Diet and Liver Adiposity in Older Adults: The Multiethnic Cohort Adiposity Phenotype Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diet plays a key role in the pathogenesis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Limited data exist regarding specific nutrients and food groups and liver fat continuously, particularly among different ethnicities.

Objectives

We aimed to determine the relationship between usual dietary intake and accurately measured liver fat content in a multiethnic population.

Methods

Participants from the Multiethnic Cohort were recruited into the cross-sectional Adiposity Phenotype Study including women and men aged 60-77 y and 5 race/ethnic groups (African American, Japanese American, Latino, Native Hawaiian, and white). They filled out a detailed FFQ and underwent abdominal MRI for liver fat quantification and whole-body DXA for total adiposity. Intake of a priori-selec

SUBMITTER: Kaenkumchorn TK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8564699 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature