Nutritional Advice El Mondo
Objectives:
What is the association between red meat and poultry consumption and the risk of metabolic syndrome?
Study design:
This review article included 9 prospective cohort studies, which involved a total of 21,869 participants.
Among them, 8 studies were identified for red meat consumption.
No publication bias was observed according to the Begg's rank-correlation test and the Egger's test.
Results and conclusions:
The investigators found that red meat consumption was significantly associated with a higher risk of 35% for metabolic syndrome [multi-variable adjusted RR = 1.35, 95% CI = 1.13 to 1.62, p = 0.001, I2 = 54.4%, p = 0.032].
The same results were obtained in subgroup analysis for >5 years follow-up [RR = 1.36, 95% CI = 1.09 to 1.7, p = 0.006], non-National Cholesterol Education Program-Adult Treatment Panel (NCEP-ATP III) [RR = 1.34, 95% CI = 1.12 to 1.62, p = 0.002], Non-Asia [RR = 1.51, 95% CI = 1.29 to 1.77, p 0.001], adjustment of BMI [RR = 1.4, 95% CI = 1.23 to 1.6, p 0.001] and physical activity studies [RR = 1.48, 95% CI = 1.29 to 1.71, p 0.001].
The investigators found that unprocessed red meat consumption was significantly associated with a higher risk of 32% for metabolic syndrome [multi-variable adjusted RR = 1.32, 95% CI = 1.14 to 1.54, p = 0.0003, I2 = 0%, p = 0.397].
The investigators found that processed red meat consumption was significantly associated with a higher risk of 48% for metabolic syndrome [multi-variable adjusted RR = 1.48, 95% CI = 1.11 to 1.97, p = 0.007, I2 = 64.7%, p = 0.097].
The investigators found that poultry consumption was significantly associated with a lower risk of 15% for metabolic syndrome [multi-variable adjusted RR = 0.85, 95% CI = 0.75 to 0.97, p = 0.02, I2 = 0%, p = 0.707].
The investigators concluded that red meat (processed and unprocessed) consumption is associated with a higher risk of metabolic syndrome, whereas, poultry consumption is associated with a lower risk of metabolic syndrome. More well-designed randomized controlled trials are still needed to address the issues further.
Original title:
Association of Red Meat and Poultry Consumption With the Risk of Metabolic Syndrome: A Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies by Guo H, Ding J, [...], Zhang Y.
Link:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8295459/
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