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. 2020 May 14;12(5):1412.
doi: 10.3390/nu12051412.

Association of Dietary Fatty Acid Consumption Patterns with Risk of Hyper-LDL Cholesterolemiain Korean Adults

Eunhee Choi  1 , Seoeun Ahn  1 , Hyojee Joung  1   2
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Association of Dietary Fatty Acid Consumption Patterns with Risk of Hyper-LDL Cholesterolemiain Korean Adults

Eunhee Choi et al. Nutrients. .

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the association between the risk of hyper-LDL cholesterolemia (hyper-LDLC) and fatty acid consumption patterns (FACPs) using the data from the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study (KoGES) prospective cohort. A total of 6542 middle-aged Korean adults were included in the analysis. Four FACPs were identified through principal component analysis of the reported intakes of 34 fatty acids (FAs): "long-chain FA pattern"; "short & medium-chain saturated fatty acid (SFA) pattern"; "n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) pattern"; and "long-chain SFA pattern". The "long-chain SFA pattern" lowered the risk of hyper-LDLC (relative risk (RR), 0.82; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.72-0.94; p for trend, 0.004) and the "short & medium-chain SFA pattern" increased the risk of hyper-LDLC (RR, 1.17; 95% CI, 1.03-1.32; p for trend = 0.004). In sex-stratified analyses, the associations of the "long-chain SFA pattern" (RR, 0.73; 95% CI, 0.58-0.93; p for trend = 0.007) and the "short & medium-chain SFA pattern" (RR, 1.34; 95% CI, 1.07-1.69; p for trend = 0.003) with the hyper-LDLC risk were observed only in men, but not in women. These results suggest that FACPs with a high intake of long-chain SFA or a low intake of short and medium-chain SFA may protect Korean adults from hyper-LDLC.

Keywords: Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study (KoGES); cohort study; dietary fatty acids; hyper-LDL cholesterolemia.

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