title: Dietary lipid intake only partially influences variance in serum phospholipid fatty acid composition in adolescents: impact of other dietary factors.
abstract: The present study aimed to assess the correlation between food and fatty acid (FA) intake and the serum phospholipid (PL) FA status in European adolescents and explored the percentage of variation in serum PL FA that could be attributed to dietary habits. Participants included 528 adolescents recruited in the HELENA Study. Dietary intake was assessed by two, self-administered, non-consecutive 24-h recalls. PL FA concentrations were measured in fasting venous serum samples. Reduced rank regressions were applied to examine the combined effect of food intakes. Results indicated that the variance in serum PL FA in adolescents, that could be explained by diet varied from 7.0% for MUFA to 14.2% for n-3FA. The variance in the long-chain n-3FA was mainly explained by fish intake but also by coffee and tea consumption. In conclusion this study indicated that dietary intake influences the serum PL FA status to a limited amount but that also other factors interfere. However, dietary intake is important as it is among those factors that could be modified. Furthermore, the results suggest that the overall dietary habits should be considered instead of only the consumption of single foods or nutrients, as the medium of the food or concomitant intake of foods and nutrients might interact and as such influence absorption or metabolism.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Ghent University, 2 Blok A, De Pintelaan 185, 9000, Ghent, Belgium, k.vyncke@ugent.be.
authors.forename: Krishna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Vyncke
authors.forename: Inge
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Huybrechts
authors.forename: Myriam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Van Winckel
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cuenca Garcia
authors.forename: Idoia
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Labayen
authors.forename: Frederic
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gottrand
authors.forename: Kurt
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Widhalm
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Leclercq
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Libuda
authors.forename: Yannis
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Manios
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sjostrom
authors.forename: Denes
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Molnar
authors.forename: Luis A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Moreno
authors.forename: Marcela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gonzalez-Gross
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Spinneker
authors.forename: Fatima
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Perez de Heredia
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Plada
authors.forename: Stefaan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: De Henauw
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003069:Coffee; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004041:Dietary Fats / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000032:analysis*; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D005396:Fish Products; D005502:Food; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000097:blood* / Q000737:chemistry; D013662:Tea
chemical_list: D003069:Coffee; D004041:Dietary Fats; D005227:Fatty Acids; D010743:Phospholipids; D013662:Tea