ArticlePublic health nutrition2016
Childhood dietary patterns and cardiovascular risk factors in adolescence: results from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) cohort.
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- The Relationship Between Children's Diet and Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease.Nutrients · 2026Pooled it
- Trajectories of adherence to an obesogenic dietary pattern and changes in diet quality, food intake, and adiposity during adolescence.Nutrition journal · 2025Trial
- Dietary patterns and associations with BMI in low-income, ethnic minority youth in the USA according to baseline data from four randomised controlled trials.The British journal of nutrition · 2021Trial
- Tracking of dietary patterns from early childhood to school age in the Brazilian Food and Nutritional Surveillance System, 2008-2019.Public health nutrition · 2026Article
- Association between early dietary patterns and cardiometabolic health at age 8: a confirmatory analysis of the European Childhood Obesity Project.Nutrition journal · 2025Article
- Prospective association between an obesogenic dietary pattern in early adolescence and metabolomics derived and traditional cardiometabolic risk scores in adolescents and young adults from the ALSPAC cohort.Nutrition & metabolism · 2023Article
- Dietary patterns and indicators of cardiometabolic risk among rural adolescents: A cross-sectional study at 15-year follow-up of the MINIMat cohort.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Joint associations of physical activity and sedentary time with adiposity during adolescence: ALSPAC.European journal of public health · 2022Article
- Prospective association between a Mediterranean-style dietary score in childhood and cardiometabolic risk in young adults from the ALSPAC birth cohort.European journal of nutrition · 2022Article
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- Diet quality trajectories and cardiovascular phenotypes/metabolic syndrome risk by 11-12 years.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2021Article
- Dietary pattern longitudinality during 8 years in children: results from the European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood (ELSPAC-CZ).Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Childhood dietary patterns and cardiovascular risk factors in adolescence: results from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) cohort - CORRIGENDUM.Public health nutrition · 2019Article
- Changes in Dietary Patterns from Childhood to Adolescence and Associated Body Adiposity Status.Nutrients · 2017Article
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objectiveTo investigate the prospective associations between dietary patterns in childhood and CVD risk in adolescence.
designProspective cohort study. Exposures were dietary patterns at age 7, 10 and 13 years derived by cluster analysis. Outcomes were physiological and biochemical cardiovascular risk markers.
settingAvon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), UK. SUBJECTS: Children (n 2311, 44.1 % male) with complete data available.
resultsAfter adjustment for known confounders, we observed an association between being in the 'Processed' and 'Packed lunch' dietary pattern clusters at age 7 and BMI at age 17. Compared with the 'healthy' cluster, the OR (95 % CI) for being in the top 10 % for BMI was 1·60 (1·01, 2·55; P=0·05) for the 'Processed' cluster and 1·96 (1·22, 3·13; P=0·005) for the 'Packed lunch' cluster. However, no association was observed between BMI and dietary patterns at age 10 and 13. Longitudinal analyses showed that being in either the 'Processed' or 'Packed lunch' cluster at age 7 was associated with increased risk of being in the top 10 % for BMI regardless of subsequent cluster membership. No associations between other cardiovascular risk measures and dietary patterns were robust to adjustment for confounders.
conclusionsWe did not find any consistent evidence to support an association between dietary patterns in childhood and cardiovascular risk factors in adolescence, with the exception of BMI and dietary pattern at age 7 only. However, the importance of dietary intake in childhood upon health later in life requires further investigation and we would encourage the adoption of a healthy diet as early in life as possible.
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