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Lack of folate, carotenoids raising heart disease levels in CEE
02/12/2004 - Diets low in foods containing folate and carotenoids may be a major contributing factor to the high rate of heart disease in Central and Eastern Europe, say researchers.
A dramatic increase in heart disease in this region is responsible for the strong decline in life expectancy in many newly independent states in Central and Eastern Europe, writes the team from the US-based Oregon Health and Science University in this month's issue of the Journal of American Dietetic Association (vol 104, issue 12, pp1793-9).
But traditional risk factors like smoking, obesity and high dietary saturated fat do not explain this escalation.
Using data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the researchers assessed food consumption in 19 different countries grouped into four regions based on their cultural patterns - Central and Eastern Europe, Western Europe and the US, Mediterranean countries and Asia.
Death from heart disease in the CEE countries - Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania and the Russian Federation - was six to seven times higher than in Japan, three to four times higher than in the Mediterranean countries, like France, Spain and Greece, and one and a half times higher than Western Europe.
Backward elimination multiple regression analysis was used to identify independent predictors of mortality. Intake of folate, fibre and omega-6 and -3 fatty acids played a major role in the variation in coronary mortality, shows the study, but folate played the greatest role.
A lack of the B vitamin has been linked to raised levels of the heart disease risk marker homocysteine. Read More...
Lack of folate, carotenoids raising heart disease levels in CEE
Lack of folate, carotenoids raising heart disease levels in CEE
02/12/2004 - Diets low in foods containing folate and carotenoids may be a major contributing factor to the high rate of heart disease in Central and Eastern Europe, say researchers.
A dramatic increase in heart disease in this region is responsible for the strong decline in life expectancy in many newly independent states in Central and Eastern Europe, writes the team from the US-based Oregon Health and Science University in this month's issue of the Journal of American Dietetic Association (vol 104, issue 12, pp1793-9).
But traditional risk factors like smoking, obesity and high dietary saturated fat do not explain this escalation.
Using data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the researchers assessed food consumption in 19 different countries grouped into four regions based on their cultural patterns - Central and Eastern Europe, Western Europe and the US, Mediterranean countries and Asia.
Death from heart disease in the CEE countries - Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania and the Russian Federation - was six to seven times higher than in Japan, three to four times higher than in the Mediterranean countries, like France, Spain and Greece, and one and a half times higher than Western Europe.
Backward elimination multiple regression analysis was used to identify independent predictors of mortality. Intake of folate, fibre and omega-6 and -3 fatty acids played a major role in the variation in coronary mortality, shows the study, but folate played the greatest role.
A lack of the B vitamin has been linked to raised levels of the heart disease risk marker homocysteine. Read More...
Lack of folate, carotenoids raising heart disease levels in CEE
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