Dietary Patterns and the Metabolic Syndrome in Korean Adolescents
2001 Korean National Health and Nutrition Survey
- Jeong A Kim, MD, PHD1,
- Seon Mee Kim, MD, PHD2,
- Jee Sung Lee3,
- Han Jin Oh, MD, PHD1,
- Jee Hye Han, MD, PHD4,
- Yoonju Song, PHD5,
- Hyojee Joung, PHD6 and
- Hye Soon Park, MD, MPH, PHD7
- 1Department of Family Medicine, Cheil General Hospital and Women's Health Care Center, Kwandong University, Seoul, Korea
- 2Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
- 3Division of Biostatistics, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
- 4Department of Family Medicine, Eulji Medical University, Seoul, Korea
- 5Human Ecology Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- 6Department of Public Health Nutrition, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- 7Department of Family Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
- Address correspondence and reprint requests to Hye Soon Park, MD, PhD, MPH, Family Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Songpa-gu, Pungnap-dong, Seoul, Korea 136-736 or Hyojee Joung, PhD, Public Health Nutrition, Seoul National University, 28 Yeongun-dong, Chongro-gu, Seoul, Korea 110-799. E-mail: hyesoon{at}amc.seoul.kr or hjjoung{at}snu.ac.kr
The presence of metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents represents a high-risk state that conveys an increased risk of metabolic disease (1,2). The importance of the role of dietary patterns cannot be overemphasized because of the relation to metabolic disease. Although previous studies show that some dietary patterns are related to the risk of the metabolic syndrome (3–6), these studies focus on adults and were rarely conducted on children or adolescents in a nationally based survey. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify dietary patterns and to examine the association between dietary patterns and the metabolic syndrome in Korean adolescents. Although studies on the Korean population may yield unique results primarily due to the ethnic homogeneity inherent to the Korean population with very little genetic diversity, the results tend to be applicable to other countries as well.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—
The 2001 Korean National Health and Nutrition Survey, a cross-sectional and nationally representative survey, was conducted from November to December 2001. A stratified, multistage, probability sampling design was used, with selection made from sampling units. Weights indicating the probability of being sampled were assigned to each participant, which enabled the results to represent the entire Korean population.
A total of 12,441 individuals participated in the Health Interview Survey, which included a 24-h dietary intake recall. …
