Association between calcium intake from different food sources during childhood and cardiometabolic risk on adolescence: The Generation XXI birth cohort
Authors' conclusion
This study supports a protective effect of calcium on adolescents' cardiometabolic health, especially from vegetables.
Study context
- Population
- Children from the Generation XXI birth cohort; dietary data from a 3-day food diary at 4, 7 and 10 y
- Participants
- 4,017 children
- Exposure
- Dairy and non-dairy calcium intake at 4, 7 and 10 y vs cardiometabolic risk at 13 y
- Outcome
- Cardiometabolic risk (clusters by probabilistic Gaussian mixture model of z-scores of WC, HOMA-IR, HDL cholesterol, TG and systolic BP)
- Follow-up
- 13 y
Methodological detailsbirth cohort, multivariable linear and logistic regression
- Birth cohort
- Multivariable linear and logistic regression
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Body mass index (BMI), β
−0.02 (−0.04; −0.01) (95% CI)
WC (cm), β
−0.23 (−0.36; −0.11) (95% CI)
Diastolic BP (mmHg), β
−0.14 (−0.26; −0.03) (95% CI)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Calcium from milk at 7 y and WC · 7 y
- WC, β
- −0.25 (−0.48; −0.03) (95% CI)
Calcium from yogurt at 10 y and BMI, WC
- BMI, β
- 0.08 (0.03; 0.13) (95% CI)
- WC, β
- 0.54 (0.12; 0.96) (95% CI)
Calcium from vegetables and later cardiometabolic risk · 4, 7, 10 y
- OR at 4 y
- 0.71
- OR at 7 y
- 0.84
- OR at 10 y
- 0.98
Original publication
Association between calcium intake from different food sources during childhood and cardiometabolic risk on adolescence: The Generation XXI birth cohort. Pediatr Obes. Published 18 August 2024. doi:10.
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