The association between water intake, body composition and cardiometabolic factors among children - The Cuenca study
Milla-Tobarra M, García-Hermoso A, Lahoz-García N, Notario-Pacheco B, Lucas-de la Cruz L, Pozuelo-Carrascosa DP, García-Meseguer MJ, Martínez-Vizcaíno V
Nutricion hospitalaria · 12 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Cross-sectional study (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2016-07-07 · Nutr Hosp · vol. 33 · issue 3 · p. 312
- Publisher
- Arán Ediciones
- Cited
- 24 citations · more than 90% of similar papers · 2.4× the field average
- References
- 44 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY-NC-SA
- Research areas
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Sodium Intake and Health · Thermoregulation and physiological responses
- Keywords
- Medicine, Blood pressure, Overweight, Waist, Obesity, Anthropometry, Body mass index, Metabolic syndrome, Cholesterol, Body water, Internal medicine, Body weight
- MeSH
- body water, humans, cardiovascular diseases, metabolic diseases, cross-sectional studies, body composition, drinking, child, spain, female, male
8 authors
From ES, CL
- Marta Milla-TobarraHospital General Nuestra Señora del Prado
- Antônio García‐HermosoUniversidad de Santiago de Chile
- Noelia Lahoz-GarcíaUniversity of Castilla-La Mancha
- Blanca Notario‐PachecoUniversity of Castilla-La Mancha
- Lidia Lucas‐de la CruzUniversity of Castilla-La Mancha
- Diana P. Pozuelo‐CarrascosaUniversity of Castilla-La Mancha
Abstract
Introduction
Beverage consumption and its possible association with current obesity epidemic and metabolic syndrome is under investigation in recent years, however water intake is probably the most underestimated of all beverages and could play an important role.
Objective
The aim of this study was to examine the association between water intake, body composition and cardiometabolic factors in a sample of Spanish children.
Methods
A cross-sectional study was conducted in 366 schoolchildren (53.5% girls) aged 9-11 years from the province of Cuenca in Spain. Data of anthropometrics, body composition, cardiometabolic risk factors and ardiorespiratory fi tness variables were collected. Beverage consumption was assessed using two non-consecutive 24 h dietary recalls.
Results
We found an inverse association between the consumption of water (ml)/kg per weight with BMI, body fat, fat-free mass, waist circumference, insulin levels, HOMA-IR (p < 0.001), and with arterial pressure parameters, systolic (p < 0.010) and diastolic blood pressure (p < 0.028), and mean arterial pressure (p < 0.012), as well as direct associations with HDL cholesterol (p < 0.001). In ANCOVA analyses, children who drank less water (ml)/kg per weight, had higher levels of LDL cholesterol (p < 0.050) and lower levels of HDL cholesterol (p < 0.042), and overweight-obesity subjects drank less water (ml)/kg per weight than normal peers (p < 0.011). Besides, children with lower levels of HDL cholesterol and higher levels of triglycerides and blood pressure had less water intake as a beverage. Finally, children who drank less water from beverages had high levels of LDL cholesterol.
Conclusions
Higher consumption of water (ml)/kg per weight was negatively associated with BMI, body fat, fat-free mass, waist circumference, insulin levels, HOMA-IR, and positively with HDL cholesterol in children independently of age, sex and cardiorespiratory fi tness. In addition, overweight-obese children drank less water (ml)/kg per weight than normoweight ones. Therefore, water consumption is associated with numerous health benefi ts and its adequate intake could contribute to prevent obesity and metabolic syndrome in childhood.
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