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Diet quality is associated with obesity and hypertension in Australian adults: a cross sectional study

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Title
Diet quality is associated with obesity and hypertension in Australian adults: a cross sectional study
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BMC Public Health, October 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12889-016-3714-5
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Katherine M. Livingstone, Sarah A. McNaughton

Abstract

Poor diet, characterized by a low diet quality score, has been associated with greater prevelence of obesity and hypertension. However, the evidence is inconsistent across diet quality scores and by sex. The aim was to investigate the relationship between diet quality and obesity and hypertension. Adults (n = 4908; age 45.2 ± 0.24 years) were included from the cross-sectional Australian Health Survey 2011-2013. Two 24-h dietary recalls were used to derive the dietary guideline index (DGI) and recommended food score (RFS). Logistic regression investigated relationships between diet quality score and odds ratio of obesity, hypertension and obesity-associated hypertension. In the highest tertile of DGI, but not RFS, individuals were less likely to be obese (men: OR 0.64, CI: 0.45, 0.92, P-trend = 0.014; women: 0.68, 0.48, 0.96, P-trend = 0.025) and to have central adiposity (men: 0.68, 0.48, 0.97, P-trend = 0.030; women: 0.53, 0.37, 0.77, P-trend = 0.001) compared with the lowest tertile. Men, but not women, in the highest tertile of DGI and RFS were less likely to be hypertensive (DGI: 0.56, 0.37, 0.85, P-trend = 0.006; RFS: 0.62, 0.41, 0.94, P-trend = 0.021) compared with the lowest tertile. In men with obesity, but not normal weight men or women, those in the highest tertile of DGI were less likely to be hypertensive (0.53, 0.36, 0.78, P-trend = 0.001) compared with the highest tertile. Higher diet quality, as estimated using DGI, was associated with lower odds ratio of obesity in men and women. Odds ratio of hypertension was lower in men, but not women, with a high diet quality score compared with a low score, while obesity-associated hypertension was only associated with diet quality score in men with obesity. Longitudinal studies are needed to evaluate whether diet quality predicts risk of obesity and hypertension.

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Unknown 171 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 42 25%
Student > Master 27 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 5%
Researcher 7 4%
Other 19 11%
Unknown 55 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 45 26%
Medicine and Dentistry 24 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 6%
Social Sciences 7 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 4%
Other 21 12%
Unknown 58 34%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 October 2022.
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#1,587,219
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#37
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