Dietary Patterns, Obesity Markers and Leukocyte Telomere Length Among Brazilian Civil Servants: Cross-sectional Results from the Pro-Saude Study

Overview

Journal Public Health Nutr

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Date 2023 May 26

PMID 37231745

Authors

Nathalia Ferrazzo Naspolini

Rosely Sichieri

Diana Barbosa Cunha

Rosangela Alves Pereira

Eduardo Faerstein

Affiliations

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Abstract

Objective: Dietary patterns express the combination and variety of foods in the diet. The partial least squares method allows extracting dietary patterns related to a specific health outcome. Few studies have evaluated obesity-related dietary patterns associated with telomeres length. This study aims to identify dietary patterns explaining obesity markers and to assess their association with leukocyte telomere length (LTL), a biological marker of the ageing process.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: University campuses in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Participants: 478 participants of a civil servants' cohort study with data on food consumption, obesity measurements (total body fat, visceral fat, BMI, leptin and adiponectin) and blood samples.

Results: Three dietary patterns were extracted: (1) fast food and meat; (2) healthy and (3) traditional pattern, which included rice and beans, the staple foods most consumed in Brazil. All three dietary patterns explained 23·2 % of food consumption variation and 10·7 % of the obesity-related variables. The fast food and meat pattern were the first factor extracted, explaining 11-13 % variation of the obesity-related response variables (BMI, total body fat and visceral fat), leptin and adiponectin showed the lowest percentage (4·5-0·1 %). The healthy pattern mostly explained leptin and adiponectin variations (10·7 and 3·3 %, respectively). The traditional pattern was associated with LTL ( = 0·0117; 95 % CI 0·0001, 0·0233) after adjustment for the other patterns, age, sex, exercise practice, income and energy intake.

Conclusion: Leukocyte telomere length was longer among participants eating a traditional dietary pattern that combines fruit, vegetables and beans.

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