Micronutrient intake and the presence of the metabolic syndrome.
BACKGROUND
Dietary micronutrients have been proposed to protect against oxidative damage and related clinical complications.


OBJECTIVE
We aimed to compare the micronutrient intake between individuals with and without metabolic syndrome (MS).


METHODS
This cross-sectional study included 3800 men and women who were aged between 35 and 65 years. The diagnosis of the MS was based on International Diabetes Federation criteria. Dietary intake of participants was assessed using a questionnaire for 24 h dietary recall. Student's t-test and Mann-Whitney U-tests were used for comparing the micronutrient intake of subjects with or without the MS and the odds ratio for the presence of the MS was calculated for each micronutrient by control for total energy intake adjusted by the residue method.


RESULTS
The mean age of MS subjects and the control group was 48.8 ± 7.9 years and 47.6 ± 7.6 years, respectively. Energy-adjusted intake of vitamin E (P < 0.05), B2 (P < 0.01), and B12 (P < 0.05) was higher in normal women compared with women with MS. Energy-adjusted intake of vitamin B1 was significantly higher in women with MS. After logistic regression analysis, no significant association between micronutrient intake and MS was shown.


CONCLUSIONS
We found no significant association between micronutrient intake and MS.
Biochemistry of Nutrition Research Center and department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Soudabe
S
Motamed
Mahmoud
M
Ebrahimi
Mohammad
M
Safarian
Majid
M
Ghayour-Mobarhan
Mohsen
M
Mouhebati
Mahmoudreza
M
Azarpazhouh
Habibollah
H
Esmailie
Abdolreza
A
Norouzi
Gordon Aa
GA
Ferns
Dietary assessment; metabolic syndrome; micronutrients