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Individual’s exclusive dietary pattern in predicting current BMI in healthy adults
Author(s) -
Lee Hyunsook,
Lee Sunheui,
Song WonO,
Kim Whayoung
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.21.6.a1063-a
Subject(s) - logistic regression , obesity , demography , medicine , population , risk factor , korean population , gerontology , environmental health , sociology
Dietary pattern factor scores of a population (PS‐DP) have recently been reported to be associated with risk factors of several chronic diseases. The association assumes that each individual follows a predominant dietary pattern (DP). We aimed to establish a system to identify individual dietary habits into mutually exclusive individual dietary patterns (MEI‐DP) in order to associate them with individual BMI. We used the FFQ data of 3,395 healthy adults in Seoul. Factor analyses resulted in 3 DPs for the population, which allows each individual to have a score for all three dietary pattern. MEI‐DP was identified by the DP which factor score is in the top tertile. Each subject was then fallen into one of five groups, named for convenience by “Balanced Korean diet,” “Unbalanced Korean diet,” “Western diet,” “Western & Korean diet,” and “Others” group. When age and gender were adjusted, obesity correlated with MEI‐DP, but not by PS‐DP with logistic regression analysis. BMI was significantly higher in Unbalanced Korean diet group than any other groups. These results suggest that health risks need to be further investigated with MEI‐DP, rather than PS‐DP, unless the underlying of PS‐DP is validated. (This work was supported by KRF/KFSTS Grant funded by Korea Government) (MOEHRD : Basic Research Promotion Fund)