Identifying dietary patterns across age, educational level and physical activity level in a cross-sectional study: the Tromso Study 2015 - 2016.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A healthy diet can decrease the risk of several lifestyle diseases. From studying the health effects of single foods, research now focuses on examining complete diets and dietary patterns reflecting the combined intake of different foods. The main goals of the current study were to identify dietary patterns and then investigate how these differ in terms of sex, age, educational level and physical activity level (PAL) in a general Nordic population.

Methods

We used data from the seventh survey of the population-based Tromsø Study in Norway, conducted in 2015-2016. The study included 21,083 participants aged [Formula: see text] years, of which [Formula: see text] completed a comprehensive food frequency questionnaire (FFQ). After exclusion, the study sample included

SUBMITTER: Moe AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9476603 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature