Journal article
Childhood dietary trajectories and adolescent cardiovascular phenotypes: Australian community-based longitudinal study
JA Kerr, AN Gillespie, CE Gasser, FK Mensah, D Burgner, M Wake
Public Health Nutrition | CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS | Published : 2018
Abstract
Objective: With the intention to inform future public health initiatives, we aimed to determine the extent to which typical childhood dietary trajectories predict adolescent cardiovascular phenotypes. Design: Longitudinal study. Exposure was determined by a 4 d food diary repeated over eight waves (ages 4-15 years), coded by Australian Dietary Guidelines and summed into a continuous diet score (0-14). Outcomes were adolescent (Wave 8, age 15 years) blood pressure, resting heart rate, pulse wave velocity, carotid intima-media thickness, retinal arteriole-to-venule ratio. Latent class analysis identified 'typical' dietary trajectories from childhood to adolescence. Adjusted linear regression m..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Early waves of the PEAS Kids Growth Study were funded by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC Project Grant numbers 284509 and 284582) and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. The 2014 wave of the PEAS study received internal funding from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute Population Health Theme and the Centre for Community Child Health. M.W. was supported by an NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship (grant number 1046518) and Cure Kids New Zealand, F.K.M. by an NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (grant number 1111160), A.N.G. by an Australian Postgraduate Award and C.E.G. by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. D.B. was supported by an NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship (grant number 1064629) and is an Honorary Future Leader Fellow of the National Heart Foundation of Australia. Research at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute is supported by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Programme. The researchers were independent of the funders and do not have any relevant financial interests in the manuscript. The funding organisations had no role in the design, analysis or writing of this article.