In order to reduce the risk of falls and fractures in older patients, promoting a healthy lifestyle ensuring adequate calcium, vitamin D protein intakes their diet is particular importance. When combined with regular exercise avoiding bad habits such as alcohol smoking, bone quality improves significantly. Osteoporosis treatment certainly includes first line development prevention adults, but o...

Dietary patterns reflect habitual exposure of foods and nutrients and are a preferred means to assess diet and disease relations. Our objective was to design a screening tool to assess diet quality and dietary patterns among older adults and to relate the patterns to markers of general health and nutrition status. We used a population-specific data-based approach to design a diet screening inst...

Ax, E. 2015. Dietary Patterns. Identification and Health Implications in the Swedish Population. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1104. 91 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9242-7. We eat foods not nutrients. What is more, we eat them in combinations. Consequently, capturing our complex food habits is likely an adva...

Latent class models are useful for classifying subjects by dietary patterns. Our goals were to use latent transition models to identify dietary patterns during pregnancy and postpartum, to estimate the prevalence of these dietary patterns, and to model transition probabilities between dietary patterns as a function of covariates. Women who were enrolled in the Pregnancy, Infection, and Nutritio...

BACKGROUND Obesity among patients with schizophrenia is a growing concern because being overweight is widely regarded as a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and premature death. Dietary patterns have been suggested as one modifiable factor that may play a role in development of obesity. The objective of this study was to examine the association between dietary patterns and obesity am...

The purpose of this study was to identify dietary patterns among Korean elementary school girls based on the change in body mass index (BMI), body fat, bone mineral density (BMD), and bone mineral content (BMC) during 22 months and to explore the characteristics of dietary patterns identified. Girls aged 9-11 years were recruited and 3-day dietary data were collected four times. Subjects with a...