Higher nutritional risk predicts abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome during longterm follow-up in women - (12/10/06)
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Among 300 healthy women, free of metabolic syndrome risk factors at baseline, the development of individual metabolic syndrome traits and overall metabolic syndrome status was compared during a 12-year follow-up by tertile of nutritional risk, based on the intake of 19 nutrients. Compared with women with the lowest nutritional risk, those in the highest tertile had a 2- to 3-fold risk for abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome. Preventive nutritional interventions for reducing obesity and metabolic syndrome risk should thus focus on the overall nutritional quality of women’s diets.
