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A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition Methodology & Assessment".

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Dear Colleagues,

With the change in lifestyle that has been observed in the last several decades, the prevalence of chronic diseases in China has increased sharply. Chronic diseases seriously harm national health and include cardiovascular disease, obesity, dyslipidemia, diabetes, and so on. In recent years, dietary patterns have been widely used in the research of nutrition and diseases. Dietary patterns can comprehensively and practically reflect the comprehensive effects of food and nutrients through the analysis of the overall patterns. Therefore, dietary pattern analysis can more comprehensively reflect the relationship between diet and chronic diseases. The improvement of nutritional literacy is very important to guide Chinese people to choose the correct dietary pattern. Therefore, it is very important to investigate and analyze the nutritional status of different populations in China and understand the nutritional literacy of Chinese residents. This Special Issue entitled “China National Nutrition Survey” will include some manuscripts that emphasize the nutritional status of different populations in China and the nutritional literacy status of Chinese residents.

Dr. Zhaofeng Zhang
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Keywords

nutrition survey
dietary intake
nutritional literacy
dietary pattern
diet quality
elderly people
cognitive impairment
lipid metabolism
hyperuricemia
metabolic syndrome
physical activity
overweight
obese

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Higher Adherence to the AMED, DASH, and CHFP Dietary Patterns Is Associated with Better Cognition among Chinese Middle-Aged and Elderly Adults

by Ying Song, Fangxiao Cheng, Yage Du, Jie Zheng, Yu An and Yanhui Lu

Nutrients 2023, 15(18), 3974; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15183974 - 14 Sep 2023

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The available evidence regarding the association between adherence to the Alternate Mediterranean Diet (AMED) and Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) dietary patterns and cognitive performance exhibits inconsistency, and its applicability within the Asian population remains uncertain. The association between adherence to the Chinese Food Pagoda (CHFP) and cognitive function is also unknown. In this study, we aimed to assess the association between adherence to the AMED, DASH, and CHFP different dietary patterns and cognitive function. The study included 3353 Chinese adults aged 55 years and over from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) in 2006. A 24 h dietary recall over three consecutive days was used to collect dietary information. Dietary patterns included AMED, DASH, and CHFP. A subset of items from the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status-Modified was used for cognitive screening. Poor cognitive performance was defined as a global cognitive function score < 7. Binary logistic regression was used to estimate the association between adherence to the three different dietary patterns and cognitive function. Binary logistic regression analysis showed that there is a negative association between higher adherence to the AMED, DASH, and CHFP and poorer cognitive performance (AMED: OR = 0.594, 95% CI = 0.458–0.771, p < 0.001; DASH: OR = 0.652, 95% CI = 0.504–0.843, p = 0.001; CHFP: OR = 0.599, 95% CI = 0.417–0.861, p = 0.006). There was a significant interaction between each of the three dietary patterns and residential regions (AMED: p for interaction = 0.045; DASH: p for interaction = 0.003; CHFP: p for interaction < 0.001). Higher adherence to the AMED, DASH, and CHFP dietary patterns was inversely associated with poor cognition in Chinese middle-aged and elderly adults, particularly among urban residents. Full article

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Development and Validation of Nutrition Literacy Assessment Instrument for Chinese Lactating Women: A Preliminary Study

by Zhao Li, Yalin Zhou, Yuwei Tan, Xiaoyu Zhu, Wei Liu, Yuhan Chen, Yong Qin, Ruijun Li, Lanlan Yu, Runlong Zhao and Yajun Xu

Nutrients 2023, 15(15), 3488; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15153488 - 07 Aug 2023

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This study focused on the development and validation of a nutrition literacy assessment instrument for Chinese lactating women (NLAI-L). A comprehensive literature review and group discussion by experts in relevant fields were adopted to determine the dimension, topics and questions of NLAI-L. Content validity was evaluated by a panel of experts. The exploratory factor analyses (EFA) and confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) were used to evaluate the construct validity. Cronbach’s α and split-half reliability were applied to examine the reliability of NLAI-L. The final NLAI-L consisted of 38 questions covering three dimensions: knowledge, behavior and skill. The EFA revealed four sub-domains for knowledge, one sub-domain for behavior and four sub-domains for skill. The results showed that NLAI-L had satisfactory content validity (CVI = 0.98, CVR = 0.96), good reliability (Cronbach’s α coefficient = 0.84) and acceptable construct validity (χ²/df = 2.28, GFI = 2.81, AGFI = 0.79, RMSEA = 0.057). In the application part, the average NL score was 46.0 ± 9.3. In multivariate linear regression, education level, age, postnatal period and occupation were the potential influencing factors of NL for Chinese lactating women. The study established an effective and reliable assessment instrument for Chinese lactating women (NLAI-L) through qualitative and quantitative methods. The establishment of NLAI-L will provide an effective tool for exploring the role of NL in health or disease and provide a basis for the formulation of targeted nutrition interventions. Full article

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Association between Diet Quality and Stroke among Chinese Adults: Results from China Health and Nutrition Survey 2011

by Disi Gao, Huan Wang, Yue Wang, Sheng Ma and Zhiyong Zou

Nutrients 2023, 15(14), 3229; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15143229 - 20 Jul 2023

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The low-burden Diet Quality Questionnaire (DQQ) is a standardized tool to collect indicators of dietary adequacy as well as indicators of the protection of health against noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) within the framework of the global diet quality project. Stroke is the leading cause of the cardiovascular disease burden in China, with poor diet being one of the major risk factors. In this study, we aimed to understand the association of several indicators of diet quality derived from the DQQ with stroke among Chinese adults and, further, to examine the gender differences using the 2011 wave of the China Health and Nutrition Survey. Multivariable logistic regression was used to examine the associations of the NCD-Protect score, NCD-Risk score, and global dietary recommendations score (GDR) score with stroke. There were 192 stroke cases (121 in men and 71 in women) of 12,051 adults. The continuous NCD-Risk score was positively associated with stroke in women (odds ratio (OR) = 1.52, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.13–2.06). When compared with women with an NCD-Risk score of 0 points, those with an NCD-Risk score ≥2 points had a higher risk of stroke (OR = 2.71, 95% CI: 1.35–5.43). In addition, compared with women with a GDR score ≤0, those with a GDR score ≥2 points had lower odds of stroke (OR = 0.42, 95% CI: 0.22–0.77). Poor diet quality, as reflected by the NCD-Risk score, was associated with an increased risk of stroke in Chinese women, but not in men. Our findings provided evidence that an optimal diet quality could be conducive to preventing stroke for Chinese women and suggested a diverse diet characterized by the limited consumption of unhealthy foods, such as red meat, processed meat, sweets, soft drinks (sodas), and packaged ultra-processed salty snacks. Full article

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