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Nutrient intake among Chinese women living in Shanghai, China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2007

Zhi Chen ,
Xiao Ou Shu ,
Gong Yang ,
Honglan Li ,
Qi Li ,
Yu-Tang Gao  and
Wei Zheng
Zhi Chen
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Center for Health Services Research and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-8300, USA
Xiao Ou Shu*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Center for Health Services Research and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-8300, USA
Gong Yang
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Center for Health Services Research and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-8300, USA
Honglan Li
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Qi Li
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Yu-Tang Gao
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Wei Zheng
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Center for Health Services Research and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-8300, USA
*
*Corresponding author: Dr Xiao-Ou Shu, Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research, Medical Center East, Suite 6000, 1215 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37232-8300, USA, fax +1 615 936 1269, email xiao-ou.shu@vanderbilt.edu
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It has been increasingly recognized that dietary factors play a major role in the development of chronic diseases, including cancers and CVD. The identification of patterns of nutrient intake in populations with different disease incidence will be helpful in understanding the diet and disease association. The present report describes nutrient intake in 74810 Chinese women, aged between 40 and 70 years, who participated in a population-based cohort study in Shanghai from 1997 to 2000. A food frequency questionnaire was used to derive estimates of nutrient intakes. The average daily energy intake was 7027·8kJ in the study population, with protein, fat and carbohydrates contributing 15·9%, 15·6% and 68·5%, respectively. Factors, including younger age, higher income, attainment of education at the college level or above, being married or holding a professional job, were related to higher intake levels of most nutrients. The present results highlight the need for continuing to promote public health strategies aimed at improving the diets of women from both older and lower socio-demographic backgrounds, and in the meantime, continuing to help address the current dearth of data on nutrient intakes for middle-aged and elderly urban Chinese women.

Keywords

Nutrient intakeChinese urban womenPopulation sample
Type
Research Article
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 96 , Issue 2 , August 2006 , pp. 393 - 399
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 2006

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