Fruit, vegetable consumption and blood pressure in healthy adolescents: A longitudinal analysis from the LabMed study

Rosário, Rafaela; Santos, Rute; Lopes, Luís; Agostinis‐Sobrinho, César; Moreira, Carla; Mota, Jorge; Póvoas, Susana; Oliveira, Andréia; Padrão, Patrícia; Moreira, Pedro; Abreu, Sandra

doi:10.1016/j.numecd.2018.05.014

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“…The parameters of the number of days that fruits were consumed within a week show statistical significance ( p < 0.05) with negative sign in the full models. This finding is in line with expectation because intake of fruits increases the consumption of viscous soluble fibre that had been found to reduce overall SBP and DBP in many studies [89,90].…”

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Effect of Obesity and Other Risk Factors on Hypertension among Women of Reproductive Age in Ghana: An Instrumental Variable Probit Model

Oyekale

2019

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Background: The growing incidence of mortality as a result cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) is a major public health concern in several developing countries. In Ghana, unhealthy food consumption pattern and sedentary lifestyle are promoting overweight and obesity, with significant consequences on the incidence of CVDs. Specifically, hypertension morbidity is now a public health concern among Ghanaian health policy makers. This paper analysed the effect of body mass index (BMI)/arm circumference and other associated factors on hypertension risk among women of reproductive ages in Ghana. Methods: The data were collected as Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) in 2014. This paper analysed the subset of the data that were collected from eligible women 15–49 years of age. The total sample was 9396, while 9367 gave consents to have their blood pressure measured. Data were analysed with instrumental probit regression model with consideration of potential endogeneity of BMI and arm circumference. Results: The results showed that 25% of the women were either overweight or obese, while 13.28% were hypertensive. Women from the Greater Accra (18.15%), Ashanti (15.53%) and Volta (15.02%) regions had the highest incidences of hypertension. BMI and arm circumferences were truly endogenous and positively associated with the probability of being hypertensive. Other factors that influenced hypertension were age of women, region of residence, urban/rural residence, being pregnant, access to medical insurance, currently working, consumption of broth cubes, processed can meats, salted meat and fruits. Conclusion: It was concluded that hypertension risk was positively associated with being overweight, obesity, age and consumption of salted meat.It was inter aliaemphasized that engagement in healthy eating with less consumption of salted meats, and more consumption of fruits would assist in controlling hypertension among Ghanaian women.

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“…Vegetable and fruit consumption are often advocated as part of the components of healthy eating [89]. The parameters of the number of days that fruits were consumed within a week show statistical significance ( p < 0.05) with negative sign in the full models.…”

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Effect of Obesity and Other Risk Factors on Hypertension among Women of Reproductive Age in Ghana: An Instrumental Variable Probit Model

Oyekale

2019

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“…In the survey, the respondents were asked to indicate their food preference for five food groups on a five-point Likert scale, where 1 represented "dislike very much" and 5 denoted "like very much". Generally, fruits and vegetables are considered as healthy food [50], and we sum the answers directly for those two food groups. On the contrary, because of fast food, salty snack foods and sugared drinks are generally taken as unhealthy food [51,52], we inverted the answers, where 1 denoted "like very much" and 5 denoted "dislike very much", and summed them up.…”

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Dynamics of Chinese Diet Divergence from Chinese Food Pagoda and Its Association with Adiposity and Influential Factors: 2004–2011

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Leepromrath

Tian

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Nutrition transition in China has a strong impact on dietary quality and health of Chinese consumers. This study developed the diet quality divergence Index (DQD), the divergence between real food consumption and the Chinese food pagoda 2016 (CFP), to measure the quality of diet in China. Using four waves of data (2004, 2006, 2009, and 2011) from China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study shed light on the transition of diet quality for Chinese residents. Results indicate that the DQD generally decreased and Chinese diet quality improved during 2004–2011. The divergence was mainly caused by over-consumption of legumes and nuts, and under-consumption of milk and milk products. Rising income and urbanization were positively correlated with diet quality for the people with low DQD. However, both of them had negative impacts on diet quality for those with high DQD. Females and rural residents held a lower DQD than their counterparts. The results also revealed that healthy food preference, education, dining at home, household size, proportions of teens (6–17) and elders (over 64) in the families are positively correlated with Chinese diet quality. However, labor intensity, frequency of drinking alcohol, and smoking have negative impacts on diet quality. Moreover, higher DQD was found to be associated with increasing risks of overweight/obesity. Therefore, we suggest national healthy policies should pay more attention to nutrition education. It is also necessary to focus on populations with poor diet quality and to adopt measures to control drinking alcohol and smoking.

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“…On the other hand, an inverse association was observed between consumption of unprocessed or minimally processed foods and DBP. A study with 606 Portuguese adolescents showed that, in girls, an increase in 100 g of fruit per day was significantly associated with a 0.5 mmHg decrease in DBP [β: −0.005 mmHg (95%CI: −0.01; −0.0002) (p = 0.038)], after adjustment for confounders [66]. Gilardini et al (2015) [67] showed that obese and hypertensive children and adolescents consumed less vegetable protein than normotensive children and adolescents (6.5 ± 1.6 vs. 7.1 ± 1.5%; p < 0.05).…”

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Can the Consumption of Ultra-Processed Food Be Associated with Anthropometric Indicators of Obesity and Blood Pressure in Children 7 to 10 Years Old?

Oliveira

Ribeiro

Santos

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The consumption of ultra-processed foods plays an important role in the development of obesity and hypertension. The present study investigated the association between consumption of food according to the degree of processing and anthropometric indicators of obesity and blood pressure in children. This is a cross-sectional study with 164 children aged 7–10 years. The body mass index (BMI) for age, waist circumference (WC), and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) was evaluated. Food consumption was analyzed by three 24-h dietary recalls, and classified as: G1—unprocessed or minimally processed; G2—culinary ingredients and processed food; and G3—ultra-processed food. Linear regression analyses were used to investigate the associations among variables. The average energy consumption was 1762.76 kcal/day, split into 45.42%, 10.88%, and 43.70%, provided by G1, G2, and G3, respectively. Adjusted linear regression analyses identified that the caloric contribution of G1 was inversely associated with DBP, showing that for each 10% increase in the energy intake of minimally processed foods, there was a reduction of 0.96 mmHg in the DBP (β:−0.10; 95% CI:−0.19 to −0.01; r2 = 0.20). There was no association between the caloric contribution of food groups and BMI, WC, WHtR, and SBP. Increasing consumption of G1 could be a strategy for the prevention and treatment of hypertension in schoolchildren.

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Fruit, vegetable consumption and blood pressure in healthy adolescents: A longitudinal analysis from the LabMed study

Abstract: In apparently healthy adolescents, fruit intake may already start to have an effect in blood pressure. Girls who consumed more fruit exhibited lower levels of diastolic blood pressure.

Cited by 14 publications

References 30 publications

Effect of Obesity and Other Risk Factors on Hypertension among Women of Reproductive Age in Ghana: An Instrumental Variable Probit Model

Effect of Obesity and Other Risk Factors on Hypertension among Women of Reproductive Age in Ghana: An Instrumental Variable Probit Model

Dynamics of Chinese Diet Divergence from Chinese Food Pagoda and Its Association with Adiposity and Influential Factors: 2004–2011

Can the Consumption of Ultra-Processed Food Be Associated with Anthropometric Indicators of Obesity and Blood Pressure in Children 7 to 10 Years Old?

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