scholarly journals Multilevel modeling versus cross-sectional analysis for assessing the longitudinal tracking of cardiovascular risk factors over time

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (28) ◽  
pp. 5028-5038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Xanthakis ◽  
Lisa M. Sullivan ◽  
Ramachandran S. Vasan
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Cardiovascular Risk ◽  
Cardiovascular Risk Factors ◽  
Multilevel Modeling ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Cross Sectional Analysis ◽  
Longitudinal Tracking ◽  
Sectional Analysis ◽  
Over Time

scholarly journals Vegetarian diets and cardiovascular risk factors in black members of the Adventist Health Study-2

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 537-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Fraser ◽  
Sozina Katuli ◽  
Ramtin Anousheh ◽  
Synnove Knutsen ◽  
Patti Herring ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Cardiovascular Risk ◽  
Cardiovascular Risk Factors ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Odds Ratios ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Cross Sectional Analysis ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Sectional Analysis ◽  
Adventist Health Study

AbstractObjectiveTo compare cardiovascular risk factors between vegetarians and non-vegetarians in black individuals living in the USA.DesignA cross-sectional analysis of a sub-set of 592 black women and men enrolled in the Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2) cohort of Seventh-day Adventists.SettingMembers of the AHS-2 cohort, who lived in all states of the USA and provinces of Canada.SubjectsBlack/African-American members of two sub-studies of AHS-2 where blood and physiological measurements were obtained.ResultsOf these women and men, 25 % were either vegan or lacto-ovo-vegetarians (labelled ‘vegetarian/vegans’), 13 % were pesco-vegetarian and 62 % were non-vegetarian. Compared with non-vegetarians, the vegetarian/vegans had odds ratios for hypertension, diabetes, high blood total cholesterol and high blood LDL-cholesterol of 0·56 (95 % CI 0·36, 0·87), 0·48 (95 % CI 0·24, 0·98), 0·42 (95 % CI 0·27, 0·65) and 0·54 (95 % CI 0·33, 0·89), respectively, when adjusted for age, gender, education, physical activity and sub-study. Corresponding odds ratios for obesity in vegetarian/vegans and pesco-vegetarians, compared with non-vegetarians, were 0·43 (95 % CI 0·28, 0·67) and 0·47 (95 % CI 0·27, 0·81), respectively; and for abdominal obesity 0·54 (95 % CI 0·36, 0·82) and 0·50 (95 % CI 0·29, 0·84), respectively. Results for pesco-vegetarians did not differ significantly from those of non-vegetarians for other variables. Further adjustment for BMI suggested that BMI acts as an intermediary variable between diet and both hypertension and diabetes.ConclusionsAs with non-blacks, these results suggest that there are sizeable advantages to a vegetarian diet in black individuals also, although a cross-sectional analysis cannot conclusively establish cause.

scholarly journals Erratum: Dietary Patterns and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Spanish Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the SI! Program for Health Promotion in Secondary Schools; Nutrients 2019, 11, 2297

Nutrients ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3021
Author(s):  
Patricia Bodega ◽  
Juan Miguel Fernández-Alvira ◽  
Gloria Santos-Beneit ◽  
Amaya de Cos-Gandoy ◽  
Rodrigo Fernández-Jiménez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Cardiovascular Risk ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Cardiovascular Risk Factors ◽  
Dietary Patterns ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Cross Sectional Analysis ◽  
Sectional Analysis

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