ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FOOD STANDARD AND LIPID PROFILE IN ADOLESCENTS FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Adolescents, Food Pattern, Lipid Profile
The assessment of adolescent food consumption, in a global perspective, is important to understand possible changes in the nutritional status and health of this population. This study investigates a relationship between dietary patterns and lipid profile in adolescents. This is a cross-sectional study involving a probabilistic sample of 1,188 students aged 11 to 18 years, from public schools in the city of Salvador-Bahia. The dietary patterns were used for the Factor Analysis with factor extraction by the Principal Component Analysis technique and scores categorized in tertiles. Associations between dietary pattern and lipid profile (total cholesterol, high density lipoprotein cholesterol, low density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides) were subjected to political political regression adjusted for sex, age and anthropometric status. Three dietary patterns were identified, characterized as: Unhealthy, Healthy and Traditional. In the adjusted models, a significant association was found between food consumption and the healthy pattern, with a high concentration of triglycerides (OR = 1.88; 95% Confidence Interval = 1.10-3.22) and low lipoprotein cholesterol. High Density (OR: 1.62; 95% Confidence Interval = 1.01-2.62), when compared to consumption at the highest limit of this pattern. There was no association between unhealthy and traditional patterns with a lipid profile.