Fatty and Lean Red Meat Consumption in China: Differential Association with Chinese Abdominal Obesity

Citation

Wang, Zhihong; Zhang, Bing; Zhai, Fengying; Wang, H.; Zhang, J.; Du, Wenwen; Su, Chang; Zhang, J.; Jiang, Hua; & Popkin, Barry M. (2014). Fatty and Lean Red Meat Consumption in China: Differential Association with Chinese Abdominal Obesity. Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases, 24(8), 869-876. PMCID: PMC4112159

Abstract

Aim: We examined the longitudinal association between red meat (RM) consumption and the risk of abdominal obesity in Chinese adults.
Methods and results: Our data are from 16,822 adults aged 18e75 in the China Health and Nutrition Survey from 1993 to 2011. We assessed RM intake with three 24-h dietary recalls. We defined abdominal obesity as a waist circumference (WC) 85 centimeters (cm) for men and 80 cm for women. Multilevel mixed-effect regression models showed that men experienced WC increases of 0.74 cm (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.39e1.09) from a higher total intake of fresh RM and 0.59 cm (95% CI: 0.24e0. 95) from a higher intake of fatty fresh RM but 0.14 cm (95% CI: 0.39 to 0.66) from a higher intake of lean fresh RM in the top versus the bottom quartile when adjusted for potential confounders. In contrast, after additional adjustment for baseline WC, the odds ratios of abdominal obesity in men were attenuated for total fresh RM (1.25 [95% CI: 1.06e1.47]) and fatty fresh RM (1.22 [95% CI: 1.03e1.44]) but were still not affected by lean fresh RM (0.95 [95% CI: 0.75e1.22]). Women also showed a positive association of fatty fresh RM intake with abdominal obesity.
Conclusion: Greater intake of fatty fresh RM was significantly associated with higher WC (men only) and abdominal obesity risk in Chinese adults. The gender-specific differential association of fatty versus lean fresh RM warrants further study.

URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.numecd.2014.03.002

Reference Type

Journal Article

Year Published

2014

Journal Title

Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases

Author(s)

Wang, Zhihong
Zhang, Bing
Zhai, Fengying
Wang, H.
Zhang, J.
Du, Wenwen
Su, Chang
Zhang, J.
Jiang, Hua
Popkin, Barry M.

PMCID

PMC4112159

ORCiD

Popkin - 0000-0001-9495-9324