Background: Are dietary patterns, substantiated by biomarkers, associated with semen quality? Materials and Methods: In 161 men of subfertile couples undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment in a tertiary referral clinic in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, we assessed nutrient intakes and performed principal component factor analysis to identify dietary patterns. Total homocysteine (tHcy), folate...

abstract background: dietary pattern is an effective way of studying the effect of diet on diseases. we investigated the association between dietary patterns and blood pressure (bp) in adults aged 20-50 years. methods: in a cross-sectional design, 418 individuals were selected through stratified multistage random sampling from households living in different regions of shiraz. information on dem...

Background and Objectives: To provide efficient recommendation for the prevention of childhood obesity and eating disorders, it is necessary to understand and explore their dietary patterns (DPs). The main aim of the current study was to explore dietary patterns among primary school aged children and determine the relationship between different dietary patterns and  factors including anthr...

Background and Objectives: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory autoimmune disease characterized by swelling, stiffness and pain in body joints. Based on the epidemiological studies, RA is less severe in Southern Mediterranean regions, where fish, olive oil, fruits and vegetables are consumed in great quantities. Materials and Methods: This study was carried out in a case-control desig...

Background and Objectives: This study was designed to investigate the association between parental behavior and the dietary intake of Tehranian preschool children aged 2-6 years. Materials and Methods: In a cross-sectional study conducted on 310 children aged 2-6 years from the kindergartens of 22 districts of Tehran, a qualitative validated 85-item food frequency questionnaire was completed b...

The disappointing results of intervention trials focusing on single dietary factors have contributed to an increased interest in whole-diet interventions. A whole-diet or dietary pattern approach recognizes the difficulty – in terms of both statistical method and interpretation – of isolating the effects of individual dietary factors. It also recognizes the value of assessing the aggregate effe...

background: one of the adipokines mostly secreted from adipose tissue is adiponectin. adiponectin is well known as the antidiabetic,anti-obesity and cardio-protective factor. present study focused on the review the previous studies about relationship between adherence to healthy dietary pattern, independent of one or two special dietary components, and concentration of adiponectin. materials an...

background: role of dietary modifications on the treatment and management of diabetes and complications was shown by many researchers. this study was designed to examine the association of major dietary patterns with diabetes-related cardio-metabolic risk factors in iranian diabetes. methods: totally, 525 type 2 diabetic subjects with mean age 55 ± 10 yr were included in this cross-sectional st...