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Secular and socio-economic trends in compliance with dietary targets in the north Glasgow MONICA population surveys 1986–1995: did social gradients widen?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2007

Wendy Louise Wrieden ,
John Connaghan ,
Caroline Morrison  and
Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe
Wendy Louise Wrieden*
Affiliation:
Centre for Public Health Nutrition Research, The Institute for Cardiovascular Research, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, DD1 9SY, UK
John Connaghan
Affiliation:
Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, The Institute for Cardiovascular Research, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK
Caroline Morrison
Affiliation:
Greater Glasgow Health Board, Glasgow, UK
Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe
Affiliation:
Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, The Institute for Cardiovascular Research, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK
*
*Corresponding author: Email w.l.wrieden@dundee.ac.uk
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Abstract

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Objective:

To compare trends in the consumption of key foods over 10 years in the most deprived and least deprived quarters in north Glasgow, Scotland as defined by the Carstairs deprivation index for their postcode of domicile.

Design:

Four random, cross-sectional, age- and gender-stratified population surveys carried out in 1986, 1989, 1992 and 1995. After assigning a deprivation score, food-frequency questionnaires from 2883 men and 3127 women were examined for compliance with dietary targets, examining trends by gender and within the most and least deprived quarters of the population.

Setting:

North Glasgow, Scotland.

Subjects:

Over 600 men and 600 women (aged 25–64 years) in each of the four survey years who completed a lifestyle questionnaire including a food frequency section.

Results:

Increasing trends in the reported consumption of fruit and vegetables and oil-rich fish were observed over the 10-year period. However, the trend to increased fruit and vegetable consumption in the most deprived groups was not significant, and in 1995 only 8% of men and 12% of women in this group claimed consumption of these foods 4 or more times a day. In general, a higher percentage of those in the least deprived group met the targets for the key foods.

Conclusions:

Trends to increasing consumption of fruit and vegetables and fish were in the right direction, but the targets for consumption of certain key foods were met by a minority of the population. The progress towards the target for fruit and vegetables showed widening social gradients with time.

Keywords

DietFoodScottish dietary targetsCoronary heart diseaseDeprivationCarstairs
Type
Research Article
Information
Public Health Nutrition , Volume 7 , Issue 7 , October 2004 , pp. 835 - 842
Copyright
Copyright © The Authors 2004

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