Abstract
Dietary fat intake, fat sources and fatty acid composition in serum among immigrant women from Iran and Turkey compared with women of Swedish ethnicity
Highlights
The increasing number of immigrants in Sweden during the past few decades has brought the health of different ethnic groups into focus
In view of the fact that immigrants in Sweden generally seem to be more vulnerable than the host population to developing nutrition-related chronic conditions [1, 2], studying their food habits is of great importance
Data are presented as means9/standard deviation (SD) for each group.BMI: body mass index; SAD: sagittal abdominal diameter; Chol: serum cholesterol; TG: triglyceride level; HDL chol: high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol. b Pairwise comparisons. a: significant difference (p 5/0.01), Iranian versus Swedish women; b: significant difference, Iranian versus Turkish women; c: significant difference, Turkish versus Swedish women; ns: not significant; p adjusted for age
Summary
The increasing number of immigrants in Sweden during the past few decades has brought the health of different ethnic groups into focus. In view of the fact that immigrants in Sweden generally seem to be more vulnerable than the host population to developing nutrition-related chronic conditions [1, 2], studying their food habits is of great importance. Immigrants in general seem to be more vulnerable than the host population to developing nutrition-related chronic conditions This may in part be related to diverging dietary habits, including intake of different types and amounts of dietary fat. Design : The study was a cross-sectional health survey of randomly selected foreign-born women (n 0/107) and native Swedish women (n 0/50) living in Uppsala. This included 24 h dietary recall repeated four times and administered in the native language. While the fatty acid profile in serum among the immigrant women had both favourable and unfavourable implications, a higher prevalence of obesity and dyslipidaemia was observed in immigrant compared with Swedish-born women
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