Dietary diversities score and anthropometric characteristics in Iranian elementary school children

Autor: Mohsen Jafari, Anahita Izadi, Paniz Dehghan, Sayed Yousef Mojtahedi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: European Journal of Translational Myology, Vol 29, Iss 3 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2037-7452
2037-7460
DOI: 10.4081/ejtm.2019.8339
Popis: Dietary diversity scoring is a good method to assess quality of individual's diet. The study aimed to investigate the association between dietary diversity and body mass index among elementary school students in the south of Tehran, Iran. This cross-sectional study was conducted on elementary school students, age range of 7-12 years old, in 2015. Data were collected using a personal information questionnaire and three 24-h recall questionnaires. Dietary diversity score was calculated from the number of food groups in these questionnaires. A total of 536 students, 258 (48.1%) female and 278 (51.9%) male, were recruited in the study. The mean age of the students was 9.43 ± 1.73 years. Seafood consumption was more frequent and beans was lower frequent in students at higher BMI (≥95th percentile) than the other children (34% vs 25% and 71% vs 83%, respectively, p
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