This study uses Swedish occupational register data to examine whether the proportion of men in administrative workplaces in the Swedish public service affects all-cause mortality risks amongst both males and females of working age. Using piecewise constant survival models to analyse occupational data from the Swedish administrative registers from 1995 to 2007, it was found that for males, a 1% ...

Diet is an essential strategy for the prevention of primary and secondary cardiovascular disease (CVD) events. The objectives were to examine: how families at increased risk of CVD perceived personal risk, their motivations to make dietary changes, their understanding of diet, and the influence of other family members. Individuals (>18 years) who completed an Australian family-based CVD risk re...

This Report addresses the substantial impact of daily dietary patterns on the health of Americans. Good health does not always come easily. It is the product of complex interactions among environmental. behavioral, social, and genetic factors. Some of these are, for practical purposes, beyond persona1 control. But there are many ways in which each of us can influence our chances for good health...

Compared to Latinos in the rest of the United States, relatively more of California’s Latinos are recent immigrants, non-citizens, and of Mexican or Central American descent. Nevertheless, the Latino population is culturally, ethnically, and racially diverse. In addition to country of origin, levels of education and acculturation influence dietary patterns and health profile of this population....

Title: Western and Modern Mexican dietary patterns are directly associated with incident hypertension in Mexican women: a prospective follow-up study Authors: Adriana Monge ([email protected]) Martin Lajous ([email protected]) Eduardo Ortiz-Panozo ([email protected]) Beatriz Rodriguez ([email protected]) Jose Gongora ([email protected]) Ruy Lopez-Ridaura ([email protected]) Version: 2 Da...

BACKGROUND Despite the importance of immigrant population in Portugal few studies have analyzed the patterns of overweight/obesity in this subpopulation. The aims of this study are: (i) describe and compare the prevalence of overweight between immigrants and natives in Portugal; (ii) analyze the association between length of residence and overweight among adult immigrants in Portugal. METHODS...

OBJECTIVE To identify and characterize dietary patterns in Lebanon and assess their association with sociodemographic factors, BMI and waist circumference (WC). DESIGN A cross-sectional population-based survey. In a face-to-face interview, participants completed a brief sociodemographic and semiquantitative FFQ. In addition, anthropometric measurements were obtained following standard techniq...

Black women in the Deep South experience excess morbidity/mortality from obesity-related diseases, which may be partially attributable to poor diet. One reason for poor dietary intake may be high stress, which has been associated with unhealthy diets in other groups. Limited data are available regarding dietary patterns of black women in the Deep South and to our knowledge no studies have been ...

INTRODUCTION Identifying modifiable risk factors for pancreatic cancer is important because of its poor prognosis. Previous findings on diet are inconsistent. METHODS Associations between intake of nutrients, food groups, dietary patterns, and pancreatic cancer risk were examined among 34,642 postmenopausal women in the Iowa Women's Health Study (IWHS). RESULTS No significant associations w...

BACKGROUND Identifying dietary patterns that consider the overall eating habits, rather than focusing on individual foods or simple counts of consumed foods, better helps to understand the combined effects of dietary components. Therefore, this study aimed to use dietary patterns, as an alternative method to dietary diversity scores (DDSs), and investigate their associations with childhood stun...