Fatty and Lean Red Meat Consumption in China: Differential Association with Chinese Abdominal Obesity

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Wang, Zhihong; Zhang, Bing; Zhai, F.; Wang, H.; Zhang, J.; Du, W.; Su, Chang; Zhang, J.; Jiang, H.; & Popkin, Barry M. (2014). Fatty and Lean Red Meat Consumption in China: Differential Association with Chinese Abdominal Obesity. Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases: NMCD, 24, 869-76. PMCID: PMC4112159

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AIM: We examined the longitudinal association between red meat (RM) consumption and the risk of abdominal obesity in Chinese adults. METHODS AND RESULTS: Our data are from 16,822 adults aged 18-75 in the China Health and Nutrition Survey from 1993 to 2011. We assessed RM intake with three 24-h dietary recalls. We defined abdominal obesity as a waist circumference (WC) >/=85 centimeters (cm) for men and >/=80 cm for women. Multilevel mixed-effect regression models showed that men experienced WC increases of 0.74 cm (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.39-1.09) from a higher total intake of fresh RM and 0.59 cm (95% CI: 0.24-0. 95) from a higher intake of fatty fresh RM but 0.14 cm (95% CI: -0.39 to 0.66) from a higher intake of lean fresh RM in the top quartile versus non-consumers when adjusted for potential confounders. In contrast, after additional adjustment for baseline WC, the odds ratios of abdominal obesity in men were attenuated for total fresh RM (1.25 [95% CI: 1.06-1.47]) and fatty fresh RM (1.22 [95% CI: 1.03-1.44]) but were still not affected by lean fresh RM (0.95 [95% CI: 0.75-1.22]). Women also showed a positive association of fatty fresh RM intake with abdominal obesity. CONCLUSION: Greater intake of fatty fresh RM was significantly associated with higher WC (men only) and abdominal obesity risk in Chinese adults. The gender-specific differential association of fatty versus lean fresh RM warrants further study.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.numecd.2014.03.002

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Journal Article

Year Published

2014

Journal Title

Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases: NMCD

Author(s)

Wang, Zhihong
Zhang, Bing
Zhai, F.
Wang, H.
Zhang, J.
Du, W.
Su, Chang
Zhang, J.
Jiang, H.
Popkin, Barry M.

PMCID

PMC4112159