OBJECTIVE Dietary patterns in Western populations have been linked to type 2 diabetes, but the role of diet in Japanese remains unclear. We investigated the association between major dietary patterns and glucose tolerance status as measured by A1C in Japanese adults. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The groups of subjects were comprised of 3,243 men and 4,667 women who participated in the baseline...

BACKGROUND Diet and nutrition-related behaviours are embedded in cultural and environmental contexts: adoption of new knowledge depends on how easily it can be integrated into existing knowledge systems. As dietary diversity promotion becomes an increasingly common component of nutrition education, understanding local nutrition knowledge systems and local concepts about dietary diversity is ess...

BACKGROUND The relationship between diet and cancers of the upper aerodigestive tract (UADT) has been investigated through dietary patterns. DESIGN Published studies on the relationship between a priori and a posteriori dietary patterns and UADT cancers were selected through a Medline search. RESULTS Twenty-four case-control studies were identified. Most of them identified a posteriori diet...

There is increasing evidence that dietary habits play a role in prostate cancer (PC) occurrence. Argentinean cancer risk studies require additional attention because of the singular dietary pattern of this population. A case-control study (147 PC cases, 300 controls) was conducted in Córdoba (Argentina) throughout 2008-2013. A principal component factor analysis was performed to identify dietar...

BACKGROUND Because human diets are composed of a wide variety of nutrients that may work synergistically to prevent or promote disease, assessing dietary nutrient intake status may be informative. The purpose of this study was to assess the dietary nutrient intake status of Chinese adults with metabolic syndrome (MetS) and to evaluate its possible role in MetS. METHODS This case-control study...

Evidence on the association between dietary component, dietary pattern and nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is scarce. A major challenge is the high degree of correlation among dietary constituents. We aimed to identify dietary pattern associated with NPC and to illustrate the dose-response relationship between the identified dietary pattern scores and the risk of NPC. Taking advantage of a match...

BACKGROUND Dietary strategies seem to be the most prescribed therapy in order to counteract obesity regarding not only calorie restriction, but also bioactive ingredients and the composition of the consumed foods. Dietary total antioxidant capacity (TAC) is gaining importance in order to assess the quality of the diet. METHODS Ninety-six obese adults presenting metabolic syndrome (MetS) sympt...

Abstract Background The aim of this study was to investigate the association dietary patterns with incident hypertension. Materials/methods This prospective conducted on 4793 individuals Tehran lipid and glucose participants, aged ? 18 years who were followed for a median 6.3 from 2008–2011 2016–2018. A valid reliable semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire used assess usual intakes. Ant...

OBJECTIVES Sarcopenia is associated with frailty and disability among the elderly and imposes significant costs on health care systems. We tested whether adherence to a particular dietary pattern was associated with sarcopenia among the elderly in a district of Tehran, Iran. METHODS We used a semiquantitative Food Frequency Questionnaire to assess the dietary intake of 300 randomly-selected e...

Dietary pattern analysis is an epidemiological method designed to consider the complexity of food preferences and diet patterns of populations. Few studies from South Asia have used this methodology to describe population food intake. Our objective was to identify dietary patterns and understand their associations with sociodemographic, anthropometric and life-style factors among low-income Pak...