A study published in BMCWomensHealth suggests investigating further beneficial dietary components of fruits, vegetables and dietary fibers that are known to modify the inflammation profile and cholesterol status in postmenopausal women.
However, the present study investigated the relationship between dietary patterns of food intake among New Zealand postmenopausal women and 15 inflammatory biomarkers. Studies assessing the diet-inflammation association in this age group is lacking for all these markers considering the fact that ageing is associated with an increase in inflammatory markers.G*Power software version 3.0.
Written informed consent was provided by all participants prior to the commencement of data collection. The “Bugs’n’Bones” clinical study is registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry with the number ACTRN12617000802303 . The study was carried out in accordance with the approval and recommendations of Massey University Human Ethics Committee Guidelines with the number; Massey University Human Ethics Committee: Southern A, Application 17/17.
Fasting venous plasma blood samples were collected, centrifuged, and then stored frozen at -80 °C before analysis. BioLegend® LEGENDplex™ Multi-Analyte Flow Assay kit’s instructions were used to prepare cytokine assays and the Beckman Coulter’s Gallios flow cytometer was used for the cytokine measurements. Levels of 13 cytokines were quantified in plasma from the samples, namely, IL-1β, IFN-α2, IFN-λ, TNF-α, MCP-1, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12p70, IL-17A, IL-18, IL-23 and IL-33.
Varimax orthogonal rotation with Kaiser normalization was performed to reduce correlations between factors and increase interpretability of the results. Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin measure of sampling adequacy was 0.6 while Bartlett's test of sphericity was significant . The IBM SPSS version 25 was used for all the statistical analyses in this study. The dietary patterns consisted of food intakes such as dairy , fruits, vegetables, oily fish, red meat, potato, bread etc. The four dietary patterns were then obtained from the dimension reduction of 16 food groups. Analysis of variance was conducted for the tertiles of each dietary pattern by the participants’ characteristics.
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