Red meat intake is positively associated with non-fatal acute myocardial infarction in the Costa Rica Heart Study
Wang D, Campos H, Baylin A
The British journal of nutrition · 7 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Case-control study (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Clinical events such as disease or death
- Intake measured by
- Food frequency questionnaire
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- National Institutes of Health
- Grants
- National Institutes of Health (HL 49086); National Institutes of Health (HL 60692)
Based on 1 listed funder(s).
Publication
- Published
- 2017-08-28 · Br J Nutr · vol. 118 · issue 4 · pp. 303–311
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Cited
- 10 citations · more than 83% of similar papers · 1.4× the field average
- References
- 48 works
- Access
- Free to read
- Research areas
- Nutritional Studies and Diet · Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling · Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
- Keywords
- Red meat, Medicine, White meat, Odds ratio, Myocardial infarction, Odds, Population, Logistic regression, Processed meat, Internal medicine, Food science, Environmental health, Biology, Pathology
- MeSH
- humans, myocardial infarction, acute disease, diet, diet surveys, logistic models, odds ratio, feeding behavior, food handling, aged, middle aged, costa rica, female, male, fast foods, red meat
3 authors
From US, CR
- Dongqing WangUniversity of Michigan
- Hannia CamposHarvard University; Universidad Hispanoamerica
- Ana Baylín · correspondingUniversity of Michigan
Abstract
The adverse effect of red meat consumption on the risk for CVD is a major population health concern, especially in developing Hispanic/Latino countries in which there are clear trends towards increased consumption. This population-based case-control study examined the associations between total, processed and unprocessed red meat intakes and non-fatal acute myocardial infarction (MI) in Costa Rica. The study included 2131 survivors of a first non-fatal acute MI and 2131 controls individually matched by age, sex and area of residence. Dietary intake was assessed with a FFQ. OR were estimated by using conditional logistic regression. Higher intakes of total and processed red meat were associated with increased odds of acute MI. The OR were 1·31 (95 % CI 1·04, 1·65) and 1·29 (95 % CI 1·01, 1·65) for the highest quintiles of total red meat (median: 110·8 g or 1 serving/d) and processed red meat intake (median: 36·1 g or 5 servings/week), respectively. There were increasing trends in the odds of acute MI with higher total (P trend=0·01) and processed (P trend=0·02) red meat intakes. Unprocessed red meat intake was not associated with increased odds of acute MI. Substitutions of 50 g of alternative foods (fish, milk, chicken without skin and chicken without fat) for 50 g of total, processed and unprocessed red meat were associated with lower odds of acute MI. The positive association between red meat intake and acute MI in Costa Rica highlights the importance of reducing red meat consumption in middle-income Hispanic/Latino populations.
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