Abstract
The purpose of this cross-sectional study is to determine the association between yogurt consumption and lipid profiles in the general Chinese population. In this cross-sectional study, a total of 26,824 participants were included from Tianjin, China. Lipid profiles were determined by automated biochemical analyser. Yogurt consumption frequency was assessed by a validated food frequency questionnaire. Analysis of covariance was used to determine the association between daily yogurt consumption and lipid profiles. In the final multivariate model, daily yogurt consumption was negatively associated with triglyceride (TG) (p for trend <0.001) and positively associated with high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) (p for trend = 0.02). There were no significant differences (p for trend >0.05) between daily yogurt consumption and total cholesterol (TC) or low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). Results suggested that higher daily yogurt consumption was negatively correlated with TG and positively correlated with HDL-C in the general Chinese population.
Author contributions
In this study, YG, SG, and KN participated in the drafting of the manuscript. KN designed the study, analyzed the data, reviewed and revised the manuscript. SG, YG, SB, GM, QZ, LL, HW, ZY, SZ, YW, TZ, XW, XC, HL, YL, XL, and XW participated in the collection of data. XW, SS, MZ, QJ, KS, YW, and XW interpreted the results. All authors have approved the final version of this article.
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to acknowledge all the people who participated in the study.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).