Characterizing the urban diet: development of an urbanized diet index.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In recent decades China has experienced rapid urbanization leading to a major nutrition transition, with increased refined carbohydrates, added sweeteners, edible oils, and animal-source foods, and reduced legumes, vegetables, and fruits. These changes have accompanied increased prevalence of cardiometabolic disease (CMD). There is no single dietary measure that summarizes the distinct food changes across regions and levels of urbanization.

Methods

Using a sample of adults (≥18 years) in the 2015 wave of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS; n = 14,024), we selected literature-based candidate dietary variables and tested their univariate associations with overall and within-region urbanization. Using iterative exclusion of select diet-related variables, we

SUBMITTER: Cyr-Scully A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9463720 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature