ArticleDiabetes care2012
Childhood nutrition in predicting metabolic syndrome in adults: the cardiovascular risk in Young Finns Study.
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- Dietary fibre intake in childhood or adolescence and subsequent health outcomes: A systematic review of prospective observational studies.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2020Pooled it
- Associations of vegetable and fruit consumption with metabolic syndrome. A meta-analysis of observational studies.Public health nutrition · 2018Pooled it
- Fruit and vegetable consumption and risk of the metabolic syndrome: a meta-analysis.Public health nutrition · 2018Pooled it
- Association between leisure time physical activity and metabolic syndrome: a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.Endocrine · 2014Pooled it
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- Using the Behaviour Change Wheel and Theoretical Domains Framework to identify factors related to increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children to guide future intervention development.Public health nutrition · 2024Article
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- Multiple micronutrient deficiencies alter energy metabolism in host and gut microbiome in an early-life murine model.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- The inflammatory potential of the diet in childhood is associated with cardiometabolic risk in adolescence/young adulthood in the ALSPAC birth cohort.European journal of nutrition · 2022Article
- Impact of a Teacher Intervention to Encourage Students to Eat School Lunch.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Estimated causal effects of complementary feeding behaviors on early childhood diet quality in a US cohort.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2022Article
- Assessment of Fruit and Vegetables Intake with Biomarkers in Children and Adolescents and Their Level of Validation: A Systematic Review.Metabolites · 2022Review
- The 'Jekyll and Hyde' of Gluconeogenesis: Early Life Adversity, Later Life Stress, and Metabolic Disturbances.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Greater cumulative exposure to a pro-inflammatory diet is associated with higher metabolic syndrome score and blood pressure in young Mexican adults.Nutrition research (New York, N.Y.) · 2020Article
- The Impact of a Multi-Pronged Intervention on Students' Perceptions of School Lunch Quality and Convenience and Self-Reported Fruit and Vegetable Consumption.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Association between fruit and vegetable consumption and risk of metabolic syndrome determined using the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study (KoGES).European journal of nutrition · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveOur aim was to study the associations of childhood lifestyle factors (the frequency of consumption of vegetables, fruit, fish, and meat, butter use on bread, and physical activity) with the metabolic syndrome (MetS) in adulthood. RESEARCH DESIGN AND
methodsThe study cohort consisted of 2,128 individuals, 3-18 years of age at the baseline, with a follow-up time of 27 years. We used the average of lifestyle factor measurements taken in 1980, 1983, and 1986 in the analyses. Childhood dietary factors and physical activity were assessed by self-reported questionnaires, and a harmonized definition of MetS was used as the adult outcome.
resultsChildhood vegetable consumption frequency was inversely associated with adult MetS (odds ratio [OR] 0.86 [95% CI 0.77-0.97], P = 0.02) in a multivariable analysis adjusted with age, sex, childhood metabolic risk factors (lipids, systolic blood pressure, insulin, BMI, and C-reactive protein), family history of type 2 diabetes and hypertension, and socioeconomic status. The association remained even after adjustment for adulthood vegetable consumption. Associations with the other childhood lifestyle factors were not found. Of the individual components of MetS, decreased frequency of childhood vegetable consumption predicted high blood pressure (0.88 [0.80-0.98], P = 0.01) and a high triglyceride value (0.88 [0.79-0.99], P = 0.03) after adjustment for the above-mentioned risk factors.
conclusionsChildhood vegetable consumption frequency is inversely associated with MetS in adulthood. Our findings suggest that a higher intake of vegetables in childhood may have a protective effect on MetS in adulthood.
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