Dietary patterns and changes in cardiovascular risk factors in apparently healthy Chinese women: a longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT: Little is known of the relationships between dietary patterns and cardiovascular risk factors in China. We therefore designed a 3-year longitudinal study to evaluate the impacts of dietary patterns on changes in these factors among Chinese women. A total of 1,028 subjects who received health examination in 2011 and 2014 were recruited. Three major dietary patterns ("vegetable pattern", "meat pattern", and "animal offal-dessert-and-alcohol pattern") were derived by principal component analysis based on validated food frequency questionnaires. Cardiovascular risk factors were standardized to create within-cohort z-scores and the changes in them were calculated as the differences between 2011 and 2014. Relationships between dietary patterns and changes in cardiovascular risk factors were asse

SUBMITTER: Li P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4865601 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature