Diet quality of north African migrants in France partly explains their lower prevalence of diet-related chronic conditions relative to their native French peers

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 137, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2106-2113

  Méjean, Caroline ^a   Traissac, Pierre ^a   Eymard Duvernay, Sabrina ^a   El Ati, Jalila ^b   Delpeuch, Francis ^a   Maire, Bernard ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b Institut National de Nutrition Tunis   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; SATURATED FATTY ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBER; FRANCE; FRUIT; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NORTH AFRICA; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; PEER GROUP; PREVALENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; TUNISIA;

EID: 34548393781     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/137.9.2106     Document Type: Article

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