Association of serum fatty acid and estimated desaturase activity with hypertension in middle-aged and elderly Chinese population.
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ABSTRACT: We aimed to investigate the cross-sectional associations of serum fatty acid (FA) and related ?-desaturase with hypertension among 2,447 community-dwellers aged 35-79 years living in Zhejiang Province, China. Individual FA was determined in serum, ?(5)-desaturase (D5D) and ?(6)-desaturase (D6D) activities were indirectly estimated by FA product/precursor ratios. Participants in the highest quartile of D5D component scores (20:4n-6, 20:5n-3, 22:6n-3 and D5D) have significantly lower odds of hypertension compared with individuals in the lowest (multivariate-adjusted odds ratio (OR)?=?0.68, 95%?CI: 0.46-0.98). When further stratified by gender, high D5D component scores were significantly associated with lower odds of hypertension in women (OR?=?0.53, 95%?CI: 0.35-0.80), but not in men (OR?=?0.78, 95%?CI: 0.52-1.18). Multivariate-adjusted prevalent OR for an interquartile increment of individual FA and estimated desaturase was 1.27 (95%?CI: 1.08-1.50) for 16:0, 1.15 (95%?CI: 1.01-1.30) for 16:1n-7, 0.89 (95%?CI: 0.80-0.99) for 22:6n-3, 1.32 (95%?CI: 1.01-1.72) for D6D (18:3n-6/18:2n-6), and 0.74 (95%?CI: 0.56, 0.98) for D5D (20:4n-6/20:3n-6). Present findings suggested that high serum 22:6n-3 and D5D as well as low 16:0, 16:1n-7 and D6D were associated with a low prevalence of hypertension in this Chinese population.
SUBMITTER: Yang B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4804219 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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