| Age, marital status and changes in dietary habits in later life: a 21-year follow-up among Finnish women. | |
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PMID: 22469058 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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OBJECTIVE: To examine 21-year longitudinal changes in dietary habits and their associations with age and marital status among women aged 50-60 years at baseline. DESIGN: Prospective, longitudinal study of a cohort in the FINMONICA population-based risk factor survey with clinical assessments in 1982, 1992 and 2003. Dietary habits were assessed via self-reported consumption of foods typically contributing to SFA, cholesterol and sugar intakes in the Finnish diet. A dietary risk score based upon five items was used. SETTING: Kuopio region, Finland. SUBJECTS: Complete data from all three assessments for 103 women of the original cohort of 299 were included for two age groups: 50-54 and 55-60 years at baseline. RESULTS: Dietary habits improved between 1982 and 1992 and showed continued but less pronounced improvement between 1992 and 2003: within the younger age group, 78 % of the women reduced the number of dietary risk points from the 1982 to 2003 scores, whereas 3 % increased them and 19 % reported no change. In the older age group these percentages were 61 %, 23 % and 16 %, respectively. Women who remained married showed a steadier decline in dietary risk points than single women or women who were widows at the beginning of the follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: Older women make positive changes to their dietary habits but the consistency of these changes may be affected by the ageing process, marital status and changes in the latter. |
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Irja Haapala; Ritva Prättälä; Kristiina Patja; Reija Männikkö; Maija Hassinen; Pirjo Komulainen; Rainer Rauramaa |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-4-2 |
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Title: Public health nutrition Volume: - ISSN: 1475-2727 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2012 Apr |
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Created Date: 2012-4-3 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9808463 Medline TA: Public Health Nutr Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: 1-8 Citation Subset: - |
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1School of Applied Educational Sciences and Teacher Education and Department of Clinical Nutrition and Public Health, University of Eastern Finland, POB 86, 57101 Savonlinna, Finland. |
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