N. Nakanishi et al., Relationship between lifestyle and serum lipid and lipoprotein levels in middle-aged Japanese men, EUR J EPID, 15(4), 1999, pp. 341-348
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Envirnomentale Medicine & Public Health","Medical Research General Topics
Cross-sectional associations between lifestyle factors [cigarette smoking,
alcohol intake, overall obesity indicated by body mass index (BMT), eating
breakfast, snacking between meals, considering nutritional balance, coffee
drinking, physical exercise, and hours of work and sleep] and serum lipid a
nd lipoprotein levels were examined in 1580 middle-aged Japanese men in Osa
ka, Japan. From stepwise regression analyses, significant correlates with l
ow-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) ch
olesterol, and Log triglyceride levels were, in the order of relative impor
tance: BMI, alcohol intake (negative), and age for LDL cholesterol level; B
MI (negative), cigarette smoking (negative), alcohol intake, considering nu
tritional balance, and physical exercise for HDL cholesterol level; and BMI
, cigarette smoking, working hours (negative), considering nutritional bala
nce (negative), alcohol intake, and coffee drinking (negative) for Log trig
lyceride level. The cumulative percentages of variation for LDL cholesterol
, HDL cholesterol and Log triglyceride levels were 4.2%, 15.4% and 14.7%, r
espectively. From stepwise regression analyses, excluding BMI as a factor i
n the model, snacking between meals emerged as a significant factor for LDL
cholesterol level and HDL cholesterol level (negative). The cumulative per
centage of variation for each serum lipid and lipoprotein level was decreas
ed (1.5% for LDL cholesterol, 6.8% for HDL cholesterol, and 3.1% for Log tr
iglyceride). These results suggest that BMI has the strongest association w
ith serum lipid and lipoprotein levels and that good daily lifestyles may h
ave an anti-atherogenic effect by altering serum lipid and lipoprotein leve
ls in middle-aged Japanese men.