PURPOSE: The objective of the present study was to investigate whether dietary patterns are associated with excess weight and @entity1144 among young adults (23-25  years). METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 2061 @entity1 of a birth cohort from Ribeir  o Preto, Brazil, started in 1978-1979. Twenty-seven subjects with caloric intake outside   3 standard deviation range were excluded, leaving 2034 individuals. Excess weight was defined as body mass index (BMI  >=   25  kg/m(2)), @entity1144 as waist circumference (WC  >  80  cm for @entity1 ; >90  cm for @entity1 ) and waist/hip ratio (WHR  >  0.85 for @entity1 ; >0.90 for @entity1 ). Poisson regression with robust variance adjustment was used to estimate the prevalence ratio (PR) adjusted for socio-demographic and lifestyle variables. Four dietary patterns were identified by principal component analysis: healthy, traditional Brazilian, bar and energy dense. RESULTS: In the adjusted analysis, the bar pattern was associated with a higher prevalence of excess weight ( @entity6972 .46; 95  % CI 1.23-1.73) and @entity1144 based on WHR (PR 2.19; 95  % CI 1.59-3.01). The energy-dense pattern was associated with a lower prevalence of excess weight (PR 0.73; 95  % CI 0.61-0.88). @entity1 with greater adherence to the traditional Brazilian pattern showed a lower prevalence of excess weight (PR 0.65; 95  % CI 0.51-0.82), but no association was found for @entity1 . There was no association between the healthy pattern and excess weight/ @entity1144 . CONCLUSIONS: In this sample, the bar pattern was associated with higher prevalences of excess weight and @entity1144 , while the energy-dense (for both genders) and traditional Brazilian (only for @entity1 ) patterns were associated with lower prevalences of excess weight.

Dietary patterns are associated with excess weight and XXXX in a cohort of young Brazilian adults.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants', 'women', 'Men', 'men'] @entity1144 :: ('MESH:D056128', 'Disease') :: ['abdominal obesity'] @entity6972 :: ('140738', 'Gene') :: ['PR 1']
@entity1144 :: (MESH:D056128,Disease) :: ['abdominal obesity']
