Nutrient intake, adiposity, plasma total cholesterol, and blood pressure of rural participants in the (Vermont) Nutrition Program for Older Americans (Title III)
Open Access
- 1 September 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 34 (9), 1743-1751
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/34.9.1743
Abstract
The interrelationships of obesity, hypertension, elevated plasma cholesterol (risk factors), and intakes of selected nutrients were examined among elderly subjects attending a congregate meal program in Vermont. Mean nutrient intakes were significantly higher for 22 males compared to 69 females. Mean plasma cholesterol levels were higher in females. Age, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and indices of adiposity showed no sex differences. Intakes of total fat and animal protein increased in males but plasma cholesterol decreased with age. Systolic blood pressure in females increased while body mass index decreased with age. A higher proportion of females had plasma cholesterol levels ≥260 mg/100 ml and a higher proportion of females than males >73 yr of age had blood pressures at risk level. There was a greater proportion of females than males with both elevated plasma cholesterol levels and adiposity. Similarly the females had greater incidence of the combination of any two risks. No males, compared to 9% of females, were in the all three risk category.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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