Nutritional predictors of successful chronic disease prevention for a community cohort in Central Australia

Abstract

Objective To investigate biomarkers of nutrition associated with chronic disease absence for an Aboriginal cohort. Design Screening for nutritional biomarkers was completed at baseline (1995). Evidence of chronic disease (diabetes, CVD, chronic kidney disease or hypertension) was sought from primary health-care clinics, hospitals and death records over 10 years of follow-up. Principal components analysis was used to group baseline nutritional biomarkers and logistic regression modelling used to investigate associations between the principal components and chronic disease absence. Setting Three Central Australian Aboriginal communities. Subjects Aboriginal people (n 444, 286 of whom were with..