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| Nutritional status of elderly Chinese vegetarians | | Author(s) | Jean Woo, Timothy Kwok, Suzanne C Ho |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 27, no 4, July 1998 |
| Pages | pp 455-462 |
| Keywords | Older women ; Chinese people ; Diet ; Vitamins ; Health [elderly] ; Hong Kong. |
| Annotation | Dietary intake (using the 24-hour recall method), anthropometric indices and some nutritional laboratory parameters were studied in 131 older Hong Kong Chinese vegetarian women (mean age 81 years). Data from age- and sex-matched omnivore subjects from previous studies of older people were used for comparison. Total energy, fat and protein calorie, thiamin, riboflavin and niacin intakes were lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians, while carbohydrate calorie, calcium, potassium, retinol equivalent and ascorbic acid intakes were higher. The 25th, 50th and 75 percentile for total body fat were lower and those for corrected arm muscle were higher in vegetarians. Mean systolic and diastolic blood pressures were similar to non-vegetarians. Serum total cholesterol was lower, as was the mean haemoglobin level: prevalence of anaemia was 30%, with deficiencies in B12 and/or iron accounting for 64% of anaemia, compared with only 30% in non-vegetarians. Vegetarians also had a lower prevalence of ischaemic heart disease history. While the Chinese vegetarian diet may result in a favourable risk profile for heart disease, it is deficient in many B vitamins and gives rise to a high frequency of nutritional anaemias. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981208244 A |
| Classmark | BD: TKL: CFD: CFE: CC: 7DR |
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