Nut Consumption and Cardiovascular Risk in Older Chinese: The Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study
Sun Y, Jiang CQ, Cheng KK, Zhang WS, Leung GM, Lam TH, Schooling CM
PloS one · 5 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Cohort study (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
- Intake measured by
- Not stated
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- University or hospital
- University of Birmingham
- University or hospital
- University of Hong Kong
Based on 2 listed funder(s) and full-text disclosure statement.
Publication
- Published
- 2015-09-02 · PLoS One · vol. 10 · issue 9 · p. e0137178
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science
- Cited
- 8 citations · more than 65% of similar papers · 0.5× the field average
- References
- 41 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Nuts composition and effects · Peanut Plant Research Studies · Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Keywords
- Medicine, Framingham Risk Score, Nut, Confidence interval, Blood pressure, Framingham Heart Study, Biobank, Cohort, Cohort study, Internal medicine, Demography, Cholesterol, Gerontology, Disease, Bioinformatics, Biology
- MeSH
- humans, nuts, cardiovascular diseases, diet, risk factors, cohort studies, life style, blood pressure, socioeconomic factors, aged, aged, 80 and over, middle aged, china, female, male, cholesterol, ldl, cholesterol, hdl, arachis
7 authors
From HK, CN, GB, US
- Yangbo SunUniversity of Hong Kong
- Chao Qiang JiangTwelfth Guangzhou City People's Hospital
- Kar Keung ChengUniversity of Birmingham
- Wei Sen ZhangTwelfth Guangzhou City People's Hospital
- GM LeungUniversity of Hong Kong
- Tai Hing Lam · correspondingUniversity of Hong Kong
Abstract
Objectives
In Western contexts nut consumption is associated with better health. We examined the associations of nut consumption with cardiovascular disease risk in the non-Western setting of Southern China.
Methods
In the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study we used multivariable linear regression to examine the associations of baseline nut (mainly peanuts) consumption (none (n = 6688), <3 portions/week (n = 2596) and ≥3 portions/week (n = 2444)) with follow-up assessment of Framingham cardiovascular disease score (excluding smoking) and its components in older Chinese (≥50 years) (follow-up 57.8%).
Results
Nut consumption was not associated with Framingham score (≥3 portions/week compared to none: 0.02 95% confidence interval (CI) -0.11 to 0.15), systolic blood pressure (-0.66 mmHg 95% CI -1.94, 0.62), diastolic blood pressure (-0.69 mmHg 95% CI -1.44, 0.07), HDL-cholesterol (-0.01 mmol/L 95% CI -0.02, 0.005), LDL-cholesterol (-0.01 mmol/L 95% CI -0.05, 0.02) or fasting glucose (0.04 mmol/L 95% CI -0.02, 0.09), adjusted for baseline values, energy intake, age, sex, phase of recruitment, socio-economic position, lifestyle and baseline health status.
Conclusions
Observations concerning the benefits of nut consumption may be contextually specific, perhaps depending on the type of nut consumed.
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