Dietary patterns and indicators of cardiometabolic risk among rural adolescents: A cross-sectional study at 15-year follow-up of the MINIMat cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diet being a modifiable factor, its relationship with cardiometabolic risk is of public health interest. The vast majority of studies on associations of dietary patterns with cardiometabolic risk indicators among adolescents are from high-income countries and urban settings. We sought to describe dietary patterns and examine their associations with selected cardiometabolic risk indicators-waist circumference (WC), systolic blood pressure, fasting lipid profile and insulin resistance-along with its gender stratification among adolescents in a low-income, rural setting.

Methods

This cross-sectional study utilized data from the 15-year follow-up of the Maternal and Infant Nutrition Interventions in Matlab (MINIMat) cohort in southeast Bangladesh. The children who wer

SUBMITTER: Islam MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9905110 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature