Major dietary patterns among female adolescent girls of Talaat Intelligent Guidance School, Tabriz, Iran

Increasingly nutritional experts express the necessity of research on dietary patterns to identify numerous modifiable risk factors of disease. This study was conducted to identify major dietary patterns among adolescent girls in Talaat intelligent guidance school, Tabriz, Iran. Among 257 adolescent girls aged 11-15 years, usual dietary intakes were assessed using a 162-item semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire [FFQ]. Factor analysis was used to identify major dietary patterns in this Turkish population. We identified 6 major dietary patterns: [1] Western pattern high in pizza, meats and fruit juice; [2] Sweat junk foods pattern high in dried fruits, jams, honey and sugar; [3] Asian pattern high in legumes, potato and other vegetables; [4] Salty junk foods pattern high in carrot, puffs and potato chips and [6] Iranian traditional dietary pattern high in hydrogenated fats, garlic and broth. Our findings suggested that among the 6 major dietary patterns, Asian-like food was the healthiest one

[ relationship between serum level of chromium and serum malondialdehyde in patients with type II diabetes]

Several studies indicate that there might be relations between the serum levels of chromium and risk factors of diabetes. However, in the majority of these studies the interaction between the serum levels of chromium and the status of body antioxidants has been neglected and the focus has just been given to the role of chromium in the prevention of insulin resistance. The present study has been designed with the purpose of investigating the relation between the serum levels of chromium and the serum malondialdehyde in patients with type 2 diabetes. The subjects under investigation consisted of 30 patients [15 females, 15 males] aged 30-60, with type 2 diabetes and a control group of 30 non-diabetic people [15 female, 15 male]. They were matched for age, gender and BMI. Blood sampling was taken from each participant to measure the blood levels of MDA and chromium and the relation between them was assessed by the Pearson correlation test. Mean serum chromium in diabetic group was found 0.80 +/- 0.28 micro gr/dl, but it was 1.19 +/- 0.33 micro gr/dl in control group [P<0.001]. Moreover, serum level of MDA was significantly higher in diabetic group compared to the control group [2.02 +/- 0.88 micro mol/lit versus 1.13 +/- 0.64 micro mol/lit, P<0.001]. The correlation test indicated that there was no significant association between serum levels of chromium with the serum level of MDA in these patients [P>0.05]. Findings of this study do not show any relation between the serum levels of chromium and malondialdehyde, in spite of a decreased serum concentration of chromium and an increased level in serum MDA in diabetic patients