The Nature of the Association Between Diet and Serum Lipids in the Community: A Twin Study

Diet is commonly thought to be an environmental influence on serum lipid concentrations. This study evaluated whether total caloric and fat intake predict total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL), and triglyceride (TRIG) concentrat...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Health psychology 2001-09, Vol.20 (5), p.341-350
Main Authors: McCaffery, Jeanne M, Pogue-Geile, Michael F, Muldoon, Matthew F, Debski, Thomas T, Wing, Rena R, Manuck, Stephen B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Cholesterol
Cholesterol - blood
Cholesterol, HDL - blood
Cholesterol, LDL - blood
Diet
Dietary Fats - administration & dosage
Diets
Energy Intake
Feeding Behavior - physiology
Female
Genetics
Genotype
Health psychology
Heterozygotic Twins
Human
Humans
Lipid Metabolism
Lipids - blood
Male
Monozygotic Twins
Risk Factors
Serum lipids
Social Environment
Triglycerides - blood
Twin studies
Twins, Dizygotic - genetics
Twins, Monozygotic - genetics
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Diet is commonly thought to be an environmental influence on serum lipid concentrations. This study evaluated whether total caloric and fat intake predict total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL), and triglyceride (TRIG) concentrations for environmental, as compared with genetic, reasons among 137 monozygotic and 67 dizygotic young adult twins. When genetic influences were controlled by correlating differences between monozygotic co-twins, a significant association remained between diet and TC, LDL, and HDL, suggesting that these dietary and serum lipid measures correlate for environmental reasons. Twin structural equation modeling confirmed these results. Overall, these results provide additional support for the hypothesis that diet is an environmental influence on TC, LDL, and HDL.
ISSN:0278-6133
1930-7810
DOI:10.1037/0278-6133.20.5.341