Open AccessAdiposity among 132 479 UK Biobank participants; contribution of sugar intake vs other macronutrients
Author(s) -
Jana Anderson,
Carlos CelisMorales,
Daniel Mackay,
Stamatina Iliodromiti,
Donald M. Lyall,
Naveed Sattar,
Jason M. R. Gill,
Jill P. Pell
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyw173
Subject(s) - waist , body mass index , obesity , medicine , overweight , sugar , confidence interval , endocrinology , zoology , food science , biology
Policy makers are being encouraged to specifically target sugar intake in order to combat obesity. We examined the extent to which sugar, relative to other macronutrients, was associated with adiposity.
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