Changes in Nutrient Intake in the Adult Population of the Slovak Republic

Babinská, Katarína; Béderová, A

doi:10.1006/jfca.2002.1075

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“…The fat intake in the Slovak Republic has decreased in recent years, but it still exceeds the recommended dietary allowances (Babinska and Bederova, 2002). In our study, locally produced fat was directly associated with higher serum PCB levels and it appears likely that a decrease in intake of locally produced fat may help to not only improve health generally, but also to reduce the PCB body burdens.…”

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Serum PCB concentrations in relation to locally produced food items in eastern Slovakia

Sonneborn

Park

Babinská

et al. 2008

J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol

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Ingestion has been a primary route of PCB exposure for people, especially those not working directly in industrial settings. During 2002During -2004 were recruited at delivery from two districts in eastern Slovakia: Michalovce with high PCB contamination from a chemical manufacturing plant, and Svidnik located 70 km to the northwest, having lower environmental levels of PCBs. Concentrations of 15 PCB congeners were measured in maternal serum using high-resolution gas chromatography with electron capture detection. A food frequency questionnaire was developed and validated at the Research Institute of Nutrition and School of Medicine in Bratislava, Slovakia. The questionnaire was comprised of 88 food items representative of the national dietary habits and designed to ascertain (1) the source of food items as reported by the women (locally produced or purchased from a retail outlet) and (2) quantities consumed of high-fat food categories representative of the national dietary habits. Our primary goal was to identify specific food sources, either locally produced or purchased from retail stores, that might predict serum concentrations of PCBs. We used multiple linear regression to examine the relationship of dietary fats to lipid-adjusted serum PCB levels in 948 adult women (Michalovce N ¼ 662, Svidnik N ¼ 284) who had recently given birth. We adjusted for residential district, age, body mass index, education and duration of previous lactation. Consumption of fat from locally produced foods was significantly associated with higher levels of lipid-adjusted serum PCB (b ¼ 0.06, P ¼ 0.007). Fat from foods purchased in retail outlets showed no significant association (b ¼ À0.02, P ¼ 0.36). There was no interaction between district and diet in predicting serum PCB levels. Comparing women in Michalovce consuming 20 g of fat per day from local sources with those consuming 1 g of fat per day from local sources, lipidadjusted serum concentrations were predicted to be higher by 81 ng/g lipid or 14.8% 630 ng/g lipid versus 549 ng/g lipid.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 51%

Serum PCB concentrations in relation to locally produced food items in eastern Slovakia

Sonneborn

Park

Babinská

et al. 2008

J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol

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“… ‡ Y = energy intakes were taken from the latest survey for which they were reported; N = energy and nutrient intakes were either not reported or were not extracted because intakes for that country were available in a later survey. ‡‡ The Slovakian surveys were not truly nationally representative, but were country-wide and designed to ‘recruit a diverse sample of subjects of different age categories and socio-economic background’ ( 121 ). NB – The EFSA guidance for the standardised collection of national food consumption data was released in 2009.…”

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confidence: 99%

“… ‡‡ The Slovakian surveys were not truly nationally representative, but were country-wide and designed to ‘recruit a diverse sample of subjects of different age categories and socio-economic background’ ( 121 ). …”

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National nutrition surveys in Europe: a review on the current status in the 53 countries of the WHO European region

Rippin¹,

Hutchinson²,

Evans³

et al. 2018

Food & Nutrition Research

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ObjectivesThe objectives of this study were (1) to determine the coverage of national nutrition surveys in the 53 countries monitored by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe and identify gaps in provision, (2) to describe relevant survey attributes and (3) to check whether energy and nutrients are reported with a view to providing information for evidence-based nutrition policy planning.DesignDietary survey information was gathered using three methods: (1) direct email to survey authors and other relevant contacts, (2) systematic review of literature databases and (3) general web-based searches. Survey characteristics relating to time frame, sampling and dietary methodology and nutrients reported were tabled from all relevant surveys found since 1990.SettingFifty-three countries of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, which have need for an overview of dietary surveys across the life course.SubjectsEuropean individuals (adults and children) in national diet surveys.ResultsA total of 109 nationally representative dietary surveys undertaken post-1990 were found across 34 countries. Of these, 78 surveys from 33 countries were found post-2000, and of these, 48 surveys from 27 countries included children and 60 surveys from 30 countries included adults. No nationally representative surveys were found for 19 of 53 countries, mainly from Central and Eastern Europe. Multiple 24hr recall and food diaries were the most common dietary assessment methods. Only 22 countries reported energy and nutrient intakes from post-2000 surveys; macronutrients were more widely reported than micronutrients.ConclusionsLess than two-thirds of WHO Europe countries have nationally representative diet surveys, mainly collected post-2000. The main availability gaps lie in Central and Eastern European countries, where nutrition policies may therefore lack an appropriate evidence base. Dietary methodological differences may limit the scope for inter-country comparisons.

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“…The FFQ originates from a validated and reproduced instrument (Franceschi et al 1993(Franceschi et al , 1995Decarli et al 1996) that was used in a series of multi-centre case-control studies carried out in Italy Negri et al 2000;Bidoli et al 2001Bidoli et al , 2003Bidoli et al , 2005. This original instrument was adapted to reXect the dietary consumption patterns reported in the study population (Babinska and Bederova 2002; Statistical OYce of the Slovak Republic 2002; Mihailescu et al 1981;Biro 1992). The validity and reproducibility of the adapted FFQ is in progress.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As availability of foods had changed with political changes around 1989, and thus consumption may also have changed (Babinska and Bederova 2002;Petrovici and Ritson 2000;Szostak and Sekula 1991), the FFQ was completed for consumption in two periods: before 1989 and recently.…”

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confidence: 99%