Association between diet quality and obesity indicators among the working-age adults in Inner Mongolia, Northern China: a cross-sectional study
Abstract Background Obesity is a major risk factor for the global burden of disease in countries that are economically developed or not. This study aimed to investigate the association between diet quality and obesity indicators applying DASH and aMed. Methods This cross-sectional study on adult nut...
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| description | Abstract Background Obesity is a major risk factor for the global burden of disease in countries that are economically developed or not. This study aimed to investigate the association between diet quality and obesity indicators applying DASH and aMed. Methods This cross-sectional study on adult nutrition and chronic disease in Inner Mongolia (n = 1320). Dietary data were collected using 24-h diet recall for 3 consecutive days and weighing method. DASH and aMed were used to assess the dietary quality. WC, BMI and WC-BMI were used as obesity indicators. Logistic regression models were used to examine the associations between diet quality and obesity indicators. Results Higher diet quality, assessed by DASH, was only associated with WC. The odds ratio (OR) for abdominal obesity in the highest tertile of DASH scores compared with the lowest was 0.71 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.53, 0.96; P trend = 0.03). Furthermore, aMed was inversely associated with obesity indicators. OR for abdominal obesity in the highest tertile of aMed score compared with the lowest were 0.63 (95% CI 0.47, 0.87; P trend = 0.005) and 0.57 (95% CI 0.41, 0.77; P trend = 0.02) for overweight and obesity, respectively, and 0.60 (95% CI 0.44, 0.81; P trend = 0.02) for high obesity risk. Conclusions Our findings suggest that dietary quality assessed using aMed is more closely associated with obesity than assessment using DASH in working-age adults in Inner Mongolia. The Mediterranean diet can be recommended as a healthy diet to control weight. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-75df33aea99246fcb50697c8156a53ad2022-12-22T01:04:52ZengBMCBMC Public Health1471-24582020-07-0120111010.1186/s12889-020-09281-5Association between diet quality and obesity indicators among the working-age adults in Inner Mongolia, Northern China: a cross-sectional studyLu Jia0Haiwen Lu1Jing Wu2Xuemei Wang3Wenrui Wang4Maolin Du5Peiyu Wang6Sha Du7Yuenan Su8Nan Zhang9Department of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Inner Mongolia Medical UniversityDepartment of Medical Imaging, Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia Medical UniversityNational Center for Chronic and Non-Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and PreventionDepartment of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Inner Mongolia Medical UniversityDepartment of Chronic Disease Control and Prevention, Inner Mongolia Center for Disease Control and PreventionDepartment of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Inner Mongolia Medical UniversityDepartment of Social Medicine and Health Education, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science CenterDepartment of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Inner Mongolia Medical UniversityDepartment of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Inner Mongolia Medical UniversityDepartment of Hygienic Toxicology, School of Public Health, Inner Mongolia Medical UniversityAbstract Background Obesity is a major risk factor for the global burden of disease in countries that are economically developed or not. This study aimed to investigate the association between diet quality and obesity indicators applying DASH and aMed. Methods This cross-sectional study on adult nutrition and chronic disease in Inner Mongolia (n = 1320). Dietary data were collected using 24-h diet recall for 3 consecutive days and weighing method. DASH and aMed were used to assess the dietary quality. WC, BMI and WC-BMI were used as obesity indicators. Logistic regression models were used to examine the associations between diet quality and obesity indicators. Results Higher diet quality, assessed by DASH, was only associated with WC. The odds ratio (OR) for abdominal obesity in the highest tertile of DASH scores compared with the lowest was 0.71 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.53, 0.96; P trend = 0.03). Furthermore, aMed was inversely associated with obesity indicators. OR for abdominal obesity in the highest tertile of aMed score compared with the lowest were 0.63 (95% CI 0.47, 0.87; P trend = 0.005) and 0.57 (95% CI 0.41, 0.77; P trend = 0.02) for overweight and obesity, respectively, and 0.60 (95% CI 0.44, 0.81; P trend = 0.02) for high obesity risk. Conclusions Our findings suggest that dietary quality assessed using aMed is more closely associated with obesity than assessment using DASH in working-age adults in Inner Mongolia. The Mediterranean diet can be recommended as a healthy diet to control weight.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-020-09281-5Diet qualityObesityWorking-age populationDASH dietMediterranean diet |
| spellingShingle | Lu Jia Haiwen Lu Jing Wu Xuemei Wang Wenrui Wang Maolin Du Peiyu Wang Sha Du Yuenan Su Nan Zhang Association between diet quality and obesity indicators among the working-age adults in Inner Mongolia, Northern China: a cross-sectional study BMC Public Health Diet quality Obesity Working-age population DASH diet Mediterranean diet |
| title | Association between diet quality and obesity indicators among the working-age adults in Inner Mongolia, Northern China: a cross-sectional study |
| title_full | Association between diet quality and obesity indicators among the working-age adults in Inner Mongolia, Northern China: a cross-sectional study |
| title_fullStr | Association between diet quality and obesity indicators among the working-age adults in Inner Mongolia, Northern China: a cross-sectional study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Association between diet quality and obesity indicators among the working-age adults in Inner Mongolia, Northern China: a cross-sectional study |
| title_short | Association between diet quality and obesity indicators among the working-age adults in Inner Mongolia, Northern China: a cross-sectional study |
| title_sort | association between diet quality and obesity indicators among the working age adults in inner mongolia northern china a cross sectional study |
| topic | Diet quality Obesity Working-age population DASH diet Mediterranean diet |
| url | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-020-09281-5 |
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