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Title: | A comparison of plasma cholesterol concentrations and diet among people having recently moved from a rural area to a regional city and those born there. |
Authors: | Peach, Hedley G. Bath, Nicole E. |
Issue Date: | 2000 |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Place of publication: | London |
Publication Title: | Australian journal of nutrition and dietetics |
Volume: | 57 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page: | 29 |
End Page: | 32 |
Abstract: | Plasma cholesterol concentrations and diets of people who had recently moved from a rural area to a regional city were compared with those of people born there. Three hundred and thirty-eight adults, 67% of those eligible in a sample randomly selected from the electoral rolls of Ballarat, attended a cardiovascular risk factor screening clinic. Of these, 95 were born in Ballarat and 41 had moved there in the previous six years. The latter had a significantly lower average fasting plasma cholesterol concentration (5.12±1.05 versus 5.65±1.38 mmol/L), a lower average daily total fat intake (9.13±1.78 versus 9.77±1.89 g/1000 kJ), a significantly lower average daily saturated fatty acid intake (3.44±0.97 versus 4.03±0.98 g/1000 kJ), a significantly lower ratio of saturated to total fat (41.4±6.6 versus 45.3±7.6) and a significantly higher average daily fibre intake (3.43±0.99 versus 2.93±1.03 g/1000 kJ). Rural people moving to regional cities may be acquiring a greater risk of cardiovascular disease. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11054/123 |
ISSN: | 1032-1322 |
Internal ID Number: | 00109 |
Health Subject: | CHOLESTEROL DIET RURAL URBAN MIGRATION CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE |
Type: | Journal Article Article |
Appears in Collections: | Research Output |
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