Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
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Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 2- MSc in Nutrition, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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MSc in Nutrition, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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Associate professor of Nutrition, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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Assistant Professor of Medical Informatics, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
Abstract
Introduction
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death around the world. Diet and nutrition play an important role in health and preventing from these diseases. Because dietary patterns have an important role in progression of CVD risk factors, we decided to explore dietary patterns and cardiovascular diseases risk factors of Mashhad city’s people.
Materials and Methods
With the use of food-frequency questionnaire data from MASHAD Study, dietary patterns of healthy Mashhad’s adults (35-65 y old; n=1500) were identified by factor analysis and cardiovascular disease risk factors were investigated across the quintiles of dietary patterns.
Results
Two major dietary patterns were extracted: mixed and westernized. The mixed pattern was characterized by high intakes of vegetables, fruits, chicken, seafoods, legumes and dairy products. The westernized pattern was characterized by high intakes of fast foods, soft drinks, red meat, coffee, french fries, tea, snacks and nuts. Weight, BMI and WC increased across the quintiles of both patterns while total cholesterol and LDL-c increased across the quintiles of westernized dietary pattern. HEI score was greater across the quintiles of mixed dietary pattern.
Conclusion
These dietary patterns were weakly associated with cardiovascular diseases’s risk factors. On the other hand these dietary patterns identified were based on the real food intakes of healthy people and they were not representative of ideal dietary patterns, we need to assess different passes that mediated the relation between dietary patterns and cardiovascular diseases’s risk factors other than traditional risk factors.
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