ArticleEuropean journal of nutrition2015
Dietary fiber intake and its association with indicators of adiposity and serum biomarkers in European adolescents: the HELENA study.
Article in European journal of nutrition, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
30 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 63 citations in OpenAlex.
- Associations of Dietary Intake on Biological Markers of Inflammation in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2021Pooled it
- Associations between dietary factors and obesity-related biomarkers in healthy children and adolescents - a systematic review.Nutrition journal · 2017Pooled it
- Trial
- Isocaloric substitution of plant for animal protein and health-related quality of life in Spanish adolescents.European journal of nutrition · 2026Article
- The nutritional and health benefits of ready-to-eat-cereal consumption: an updated technical review of global evidence.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Review
- Dietary Fiber Intake and Weight Status in Young Austrian Adults.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Prediabetes in children and adolescents: A ticking bomb!World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2024Article
- Association of dietary fibre intake with subsequent fasting glucose levels and indicators of adiposity in school-age Japanese children.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- Low-Grade Inflammation and Role of Anti-Inflammatory Diet in Childhood Obesity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- The association between dietary fiber intake and the concentrations of aldehydes in serum.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Article
- Pear pomace soluble dietary fiber ameliorates the negative effects of high-fat diet in mice by regulating the gut microbiota and associated metabolites.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Adherence to Mediterranean Diet and Its Association with Metabolic Health Status in Overweight and Obese Adolescents.International journal of clinical practice · 2022Article
- Can dietary intake protect against low-grade inflammation in children and adolescents?Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2021Review
- Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents: To Do or Not to Do?Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Prediabetes in Adolescents: Prevalence, Management and Diabetes Prevention Strategies.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2021Review
- Soluble Dietary Fiber Significance against Obesity in a Western China Population.Journal of healthcare engineering · 2021Article
- Obesity and Diabetes: A Sword of Damocles for Future Generations.Biomedicines · 2020Review
- Dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH) score and obesity phenotypes in children and adolescents.Nutrition journal · 2020Article
- Low intake of dietary fibre among Brazilian adolescents and association with nutritional status: cross-sectional analysis of Study of Cardiovascular Risks in Adolescents data.Public health nutrition · 2020Article
- Dietary Carbohydrates and Insulin Resistance in Adolescents from Marginalized Areas of Chiapas, México.Nutrients · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
25 authors at 14 institutions in 8 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeTo evaluate total, energy-adjusted dietary fiber (DF), water-soluble fiber (WSF), and water-insoluble fiber (WIF) intakes in European adolescents and to investigate their association with indicators of adiposity and serum biomarkers.
methodsThis study, conducted from 2006 to 2007, included 1804 adolescents aged 12.5-17.5 years (47% males) from eight European cities completing two non-consecutive computerized 24-h dietary recalls. GLM multivariate analysis was used to investigate associations.
resultsMean DF intake (20 g/day) of the sample met the European Food Safety Authority recommendation, but was below those of the World Health Organization and of the Institute of Medicine. Total DF, WSF and WIF intakes were higher in males (P < 0.001), but following energy-adjustments significantly higher intakes were observed among females (P < 0.001). Bread and cereals contributed most to total DF, WSF and WIF intakes, followed by potatoes and grains, energy-dense but low-nutritious foods, fruits and vegetables. Moreover, energy-adjusted WSF and WIF were positively associated with body fat percentage (BF%), waist to height ratio and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, while energy-adjusted WSF was inversely associated with serum fasting glucose (β = -0. 010, P = 0.020).
conclusionTotal DF intakes are rather low in European adolescents. An inverse association with serum fasting glucose might indicate a possible beneficial role of DF in preventing insulin resistance and its concomitant diseases, even though DF intakes were positively associated with adolescents' BF%. Therefore, further longitudinal studies should elaborate on these potential beneficial effects of DF intake in the prevention of obesity and related chronic diseases.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.