Past food habit change is related to obesity, lifestyle and socio-economic factors in the Malmo Diet and Cancer Cohort.
Sonestedt, Emily LU
; Wirfält, Elisabet
LU
; Gullberg, Bo
LU
and Berglund, Göran
LU
(2005)
In Public Health Nutrition
8(7).
p.876-885
- Abstract
- Objectives: To examine if obesity status and socio-economic and lifestyle factors are
associated with self-reported past food habit change, and also whether the level of
obesity depends on the reason for change.
Design: Cross-sectional analysis within the Malmo Diet and Cancer (MDC) study using
data from the baseline examination and the extensive socio-economic and lifestyle
questionnaire including questions of past food habit change. The risk of having
changed food habits in the past was examined using logistic regression. Mean
differences in obesity status across categories of reasons for past food habit change
were examined using analysis of variance.
... (More) - Objectives: To examine if obesity status and socio-economic and lifestyle factors are
associated with self-reported past food habit change, and also whether the level of
obesity depends on the reason for change.
Design: Cross-sectional analysis within the Malmo Diet and Cancer (MDC) study using
data from the baseline examination and the extensive socio-economic and lifestyle
questionnaire including questions of past food habit change. The risk of having
changed food habits in the past was examined using logistic regression. Mean
differences in obesity status across categories of reasons for past food habit change
were examined using analysis of variance.
Setting: Malmo¨, the third largest city in Sweden.
Subjects: A sub-sample (15 282 women and 9867 men) from the MDC cohort recruited
from 1992 to 1996.
Results: Individuals with body mass index (BMI) .30 kgm22 had an increased risk of
having reported past food habit change compared with individuals with BMI
,25 kgm22 (odds ratio (OR) ¼ 1.63, 95% confidence interval (CI) ¼ 1.48–1.83 for
women; OR ¼ 1.53, 95% CI ¼ 1.32–1.76 for men). The highest level of obesity was
observed among individuals who had changed their diet due to reasons related to the
metabolic syndrome. Changers were more likely to be highly educated and to live
alone, be retired, ex-smokers and non-drinkers at baseline.
Conclusions: Because past food habit change is related to obesity and other lifestyle
and socio-economic factors, a complex confounding situation may exist that could
seriously influence observed relationships between diet and disease. Studies need to
collect information on past food habit change and take this information into account
in the analysis and when interpreting study outcomes. (Less)
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- author
- Sonestedt, Emily
LU
; Wirfält, Elisabet
LU
; Gullberg, Bo
LU
and Berglund, Göran
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2005
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Obesity, Past food habit change, Lifestyle factors
- in
- Public Health Nutrition
- volume
- 8
- issue
- 7
- pages
- 876 - 885
- publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- external identifiers
-
- wos:000233097000011
- pmid:16277804
- scopus:28344435518
- ISSN
- 1475-2727
- DOI
- 10.1079/PHN2005736
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 31bb6b61-364a-47dd-9586-d7da769d06c6 (old id 148049)
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abstract = {{Objectives: To examine if obesity status and socio-economic and lifestyle factors are<br/><br>
associated with self-reported past food habit change, and also whether the level of<br/><br>
obesity depends on the reason for change.<br/><br>
Design: Cross-sectional analysis within the Malmo Diet and Cancer (MDC) study using<br/><br>
data from the baseline examination and the extensive socio-economic and lifestyle<br/><br>
questionnaire including questions of past food habit change. The risk of having<br/><br>
changed food habits in the past was examined using logistic regression. Mean<br/><br>
differences in obesity status across categories of reasons for past food habit change<br/><br>
were examined using analysis of variance.<br/><br>
Setting: Malmo¨, the third largest city in Sweden.<br/><br>
Subjects: A sub-sample (15 282 women and 9867 men) from the MDC cohort recruited<br/><br>
from 1992 to 1996.<br/><br>
Results: Individuals with body mass index (BMI) .30 kgm22 had an increased risk of<br/><br>
having reported past food habit change compared with individuals with BMI<br/><br>
,25 kgm22 (odds ratio (OR) ¼ 1.63, 95% confidence interval (CI) ¼ 1.48–1.83 for<br/><br>
women; OR ¼ 1.53, 95% CI ¼ 1.32–1.76 for men). The highest level of obesity was<br/><br>
observed among individuals who had changed their diet due to reasons related to the<br/><br>
metabolic syndrome. Changers were more likely to be highly educated and to live<br/><br>
alone, be retired, ex-smokers and non-drinkers at baseline.<br/><br>
Conclusions: Because past food habit change is related to obesity and other lifestyle<br/><br>
and socio-economic factors, a complex confounding situation may exist that could<br/><br>
seriously influence observed relationships between diet and disease. Studies need to<br/><br>
collect information on past food habit change and take this information into account<br/><br>
in the analysis and when interpreting study outcomes.}},
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title = {{Past food habit change is related to obesity, lifestyle and socio-economic factors in the Malmo Diet and Cancer Cohort.}},
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