SynthesisEuropean journal of clinical nutrition2016
Dietary diversity score and obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.
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- Dietary diversity and metabolic health among people in Västerbotten, Sweden.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Article
- Understanding the dynamics of malnutrition dichotomy in India: Trends and insights from the National Family Health Surveys.Dialogues in health · 2025Article
- Adherence to planetary health diet index in relation to dietary diversity score and anthropometric indices among Iranian older adults.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Measuring Global Dietary Diversity by Considering Nutritional Functional Dissimilarity and Dietary Guidelines.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Relationship between metabolic syndrome and dietary diversity in the Rafsanjan cohort study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Associations between dietary diversity and self-rated health in a transverse study of four local food systems (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Portugal and Senegal).BMC public health · 2025Article
- Determinants of household food security and maternal dietary diversity in rural Gedeo zone, southern Ethiopia: results from a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Exploring Multidimensional and Within-Food Group Diversity for Diet Quality and Long-Term Health in High-Income Countries.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Article
- Associated factors of diet quality among people living with HIV/AIDS in Ghana.BMC nutrition · 2024Article
- Association between dietary diversity, sedentary time outside of work and depressive symptoms among knowledge workers: a multi-center cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Determinants of stunting among adolescent girls in schools of Digo Tsion Town, Northwest Ethiopia: Unmatched case control study.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/
objectivesStudies examining the association between dietary diversity score (DDS) and obesity have led to inconsistent findings. Therefore, the purpose of this review is to summarize and elucidate the source of heterogeneous results reported in different studies.
methodsPubMed, ISI Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar were searched through December 2013 to identify all relevant articles. Sixteen publications met the inclusion criteria for the systematic review and 10 articles were entered into the meta-analysis. Eight studies had data on the odds ratio (OR) for overweight/obesity and eight compared the mean body mass index (BMI) among subjects with highest versus the lowest DDS.
resultsA meta-analysis on eligible studies failed to show a significant association on either overweight/obesity OR (OR: 0.72; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.45-1.16; P=0.174) or mean differences (MD) in BMI (MD: 0.22; 95% CI: -0.70-1.14; P=0.643) comparing the highest and lowest diverse diets. Between-study heterogeneity was high, and subgroup analysis failed to identify the source of heterogeneity.
conclusionsOur systematic review and meta-analysis showed that there was no significant association between DDS and BMI status, which may be due to use of different methods for assessing dietary intake and determination of DDS. Thus, well-designed prospective studies with similar approaches to assess DDS are highly recommended.
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