The Dietary Inflammatory Index and asthma burden in children: A latent class analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Unbalanced dietary intake has been increasingly recognized as an important modifiable risk factor for asthma. In this study, we assessed whether a pro-inflammatory diet is associated with higher asthma burden in three steps: (1) identification of asthma latent classes (LC) based on symptoms, indoor exposures, and pulmonary function; (2) identification of risk factors associated with LC membership; and (3) estimation of the probabilities of LC membership with variation in DII.

Methods

A cross-sectional study on 415 children aged 5-14 years (266 with persistent asthma and 149 controls). LC analysis was performed in asthmatic children. The DII was calculated based on a semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire. Elastic net logistic regression was used to invest

SUBMITTER: Cilluffo G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8724457 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature