Ultra-processed food consumption and adult obesity risk: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis
Moradi S, Entezari MH, Mohammadi H, Jayedi A, Lazaridi AV, Kermani MAH, Miraghajani M
Critical reviews in food science and nutrition · 108 citations
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- Meta-analysis (indexed by PubMed)
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- Health markers and function
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- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2021-06-30 · Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr · vol. 63 · issue 2 · pp. 249–260
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Cited
- 153 citations · more than 97% of similar papers · 5.6× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 54 works
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- Paywalled
- Research areas
- Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling · Nutritional Studies and Diet · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Keywords
- Medicine, Overweight, Obesity, Meta-analysis, Abdominal obesity, Odds ratio, Population, Cohort study, Internal medicine, Environmental health, Metabolic syndrome
- MeSH
- humans, cross-sectional studies, adult, obesity, abdominal, observational studies as topic, food, processed
7 authors
From IR, GB
- Sajjad MoradiIsfahan University of Medical Sciences
- Mohammad Hassan Entezari · correspondingIsfahan University of Medical Sciences
- Hamed MohammadiTehran University of Medical Sciences
- Ahmad JayediTehran University of Medical Sciences
- Anastasia-Viktoria LazaridiUniversity of Nottingham
- Mohammad Ali Hojjati KermaniMasih Daneshvari Hospital; Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Abstract
We performed this systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate observational studies assessing the association between ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption and the risk of overweight, obesity, and abdominal obesity in the general population. We searched the databases PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, Embase, and ISI Web of Science from inception until December 2020. Data were extracted from 12 studies (nine cross-sectional and three cohort studies). Odds ratio (OR) were pooled using a random-effects model. UPF consumption was associated with an increased risk of obesity (OR = 1.55; 95% CI: 1.36, 1.77; I2 = 55%), overweight (OR = 1.36; 95% CI: 1.14, 1.63; I2 = 73%), and abdominal obesity (OR = 1.41; 95% CI: 1.18, 1.68; I2 = 62%). Furthermore, every 10% increase of UPF consumption in daily calorie intake was associated with a 7%, a 6%, and a 5% higher risk of overweight, obesity, and abdominal obesity, respectively. Dose-response meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies showed a positive linear association between UPF consumption and abdominal obesity. There was also a positive linear association between UPF consumption and risk of overweight/obesity in the analysis of cross-sectional studies and a positive monotonic association in the analysis of cohort studies. Our study suggests that UPF consumption is associated with an increased risk of excess weight or abdominal obesity.
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