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ArticleNutrients2020

Elevated Fat Intake Increases Body Weight and the Risk of Overweight and Obesity among Chinese Adults: 1991-2015 Trends.

Liang Wang, Huijun Wang, Bing Zhang, Barry M Popkin, Shufa Du

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Article in Nutrients, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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69citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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69 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 135 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Liang WangDepartment of Public Health, Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798, USA.
Huijun WangChinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Beijing 100050, China.
Bing ZhangChinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Beijing 100050, China.
Barry M PopkinDepartment of Nutrition and Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9495-9324
Shufa DuDepartment of Nutrition and Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Chinese Center For Disease Control and Prevention · CNUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USBaylor University · US

Funding

MONITORING SOCIAL CHANGE: HEALTH, REPRODUCTION, AGINGR01HD030880 · NICHD · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ADAIR, LINDA S, POPKIN, BARRY M · 1994 to 2024
$27.0M
Research Services CoreP2CHD050924 · NICHD · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI KAREN B GUZZO · 2015 to 2026
$9.6M
Program Development (Pilot) CoreP30AG066615 · NIA · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ELIZABETH A FRANKENBERG · 2020 to 2026
$4.1M
Monitoring Social Change: Dynamics Of Aging And Cognitive FunctionR01AG065357 · NIA · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ADAIR, LINDA S, POPKIN, BARRY M · 2020 to 2024
$3.6M
Nutrition-Related NCD Prevention Training in ChinaD43TW009077 · FIC · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI POPKIN, BARRY M · 2011 to 2015
$1.1M
FIC NIH HHS D43-TW009077NIA NIH HHS R01 AG065357NICHD NIH HHS P2C HD050924NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD030880NIH HHS R01-HD30880; R01-HD38700; R24-HD050924; DK056350
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Studies on fat intake and obesity have been inconclusive. This study examined the associations between dietary fat intake and body weight and the risk of overweight and obesity in China. We used data from 23,859 adults aged 20-60 years who participated in the China Health and Nutrition Survey, an ongoing open-cohort study, from 1991 to 2015. We collected detailed dietary data by conducting three 24-h dietary recalls and weighing foods and condiments in household inventories. We examined the associations between fat intake and body weight, body mass index (BMI), and the risk of overweight and obesity with random-effects linear or logistic regression models for panel data. The Chinese population's fat intake, percentage of energy intake from fat, and prevalence of high-fat diets (energy intake from fat > 30%) increased from 68.5 g per day (g/d), 23.1%, and 22.4%, respectively, in 1991 to 79.3 g/d, 35.6%, and 67.2%, respectively, in 2015. The prevalence of overweight and obesity increased from 12.3% to 37.3% during the same period. Fat intake, percentage of energy intake from fat, and a high-fat diet were positively associated with body weight, BMI, and the risk of overweight and obesity in both sexes (

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PMID33114561
PMCPMC7694029
OpenAlexW3097771992

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