Mustafa, Norashikin and Majid, Hazreen Abdul and Toumpakari, Zoi and Carroll, Harriet Amy and Jalaludin, Muhammad Yazid and Al Sadat, Nabilla and Johnson, Laura (2019) The Association of Breakfast Frequency and Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Risk Factors among Adolescents in Malaysia. Nutrients, 11 (5). p. 973. ISSN 2072-6643, DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11050973.
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Breakfast frequency is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in Western populations, possibly via the types of food eaten or the timing of food consumption, but associations in Malaysian adolescents are unknown. While the timing of breakfast is similar, the type of food consumed at breakfast in Malaysia differs from Western diets, which allows novel insight into the mechanisms underlying breakfast–CVD risk associations. We investigated foods eaten for breakfast and associations between breakfast frequency and CVD risk factors in the Malaysian Health and Adolescents Longitudinal Research Team study (MyHeARTs). Breakfast (frequency of any food/drink reported as breakfast in 7-day diet history interviews) and CVD risk factors (body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, fasting blood glucose, triacylglycerol, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), and systolic and diastolic blood pressure) were cross-sectionally associated using linear regression adjusting for potential confounders (n = 795, age 13 years). Twelve percent of adolescents never ate breakfast and 50% ate breakfast daily, containing mean (SD) 400 (±127) kilocalories. Commonly consumed breakfast foods were cereal-based dishes (primarily rice), confectionery (primarily sugar), hot/powdered drinks (primarily Milo), and high-fat milk (primarily sweetened condensed milk). After adjustment, each extra day of breakfast consumption per week was associated with a lower BMI (−0.34 kg/m2, 95% confidence interval (CI) −0.02, −0.66), and serum total (−0.07 mmol/L 95% CI −0.02, −0.13) and LDL (−0.07 mmol/L 95% CI −0.02, −0.12) cholesterol concentrations. Eating daily breakfast in Malaysia was associated with slightly lower BMI and total and LDL cholesterol concentrations among adolescents. Longitudinal studies and randomized trials could further establish causality. © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | MyHeARTs study is funded by the University of Malaya Research Grant (H.A.M.: UMRP022A-14HTM, M.Y.J.: UMRP022C-14HTM) and Vice-Chancellor Research Grant (NAS: UMQUB3D-2011), Medical Research Council grant MR/P013821/1 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | breakfast; obesity; cardiovascular; health; BMI; waist circumference; cholesterol; blood pressure; MyHeARTs |
| Subjects: | R Medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2020 08:28 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2020 08:28 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/23921 |
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