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The snack preference could be used as a diagnostic indicator for hypertension in Korean teenagers (810.19)
Author(s) -
Shin Dongsoon,
Yun Suyoung
Publication year - 2014
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.28.1_supplement.810.19
Subject(s) - meal , medicine , blood pressure , preference , snack food , diastole , feeling , metabolic syndrome , demography , obesity , environmental health , food science , psychology , biology , social psychology , sociology , economics , microeconomics
Nowadays metabolic syndrome is considered to be epidemic all around the world. The aim of this survey was to investigate the relationship of characters of metabolic syndrome and snack preference in teenagers around southern beach area of Korea. The subjects were 232 males and 232 females, total 464 high school students. Average of BMI range were 20.9~21.3, and blood glucose level after meal 2 hours was 98.8±13.0 mg/dL. There were no significant differences regardless of gender. However systolic pressure were boys 129.7±17.6 mmHg, girls 103.8± 9.7mmHg, respectively ( p<.001 ), while their diastolic pressure were 70.0± 8.5mmHg similarly. At school time they had a snack for alternative meal or just habitually. Often boys also enjoyed snacks for feeling satiety between meals, but girls did for health or fitness ( p<.01 ). Interestingly boys desired to eat whole‐grain breads, while girls did fresh fruits or vegetables as a healthy snack ( p<.01 ). These results suggest that higher preference for whole‐grain breads rather than fresh fruit or vegetables would drive them to be hypertensive, which will deteriorate one of sings for metabolic syndrome.