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Dietary fat intake in healthy adolescents: inverse relationships between the estimated intake of saturated fatty acids and serum cholesterol

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Gösta Samuelson ,
Lars-Erik Bratteby ,
Rawya Mohsen  and
Bengt Vessby
Gösta Samuelson
Affiliation:
Units of Clinical Physiology and Clinical Nutrition Research, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
Lars-Erik Bratteby
Affiliation:
Units of Clinical Physiology and Clinical Nutrition Research, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
Rawya Mohsen
Affiliation:
Units of Clinical Physiology and Clinical Nutrition Research, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
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Abstract

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The objective of the present study was to describe the intake of dietary fatty acids among healthy 15-year-old boys and girls and to relate the intake of specific fatty acids and the fatty acid composition of the serum cholesterol esters to serum lipid, apolipoprotein (Apo) and insulin concentrations respectively. Fifty-two girls and forty-two boys were randomly selected from the official population register. Unexpectedly, significant inverse associations were found between the dietary content of saturated fatty acids with a chain length of four to fifteen C atoms, mainly derived from milk fat, as well as the corresponding fatty acids in the serum cholesterol esters, on the one hand and the serum concentrations of cholesterol and ApoB on the other. The estimated dietary intake of 4:0–10:0, 12:0 and 14:0 respectively, were all significantly inversely related to the serum cholesterol (r -0.32, r -0.31, r -0.30, all P<0.05) and ApoB (r -0.42, r -0.42, and r -0.40, all P<0.05) concentrations in girls and 12:0 to the ApoB concentration (r -0.55, P<0.01) in boys. The proportions of 12:0 and 15:0 in the serum cholesterol esters were negatively correlated with the serum cholesterol concentrations in both girls (r -0.34, r -0.32, P<0.05) and boys (r -0.53, P<0.01; r -0.32, P<0.05) and with the ApoB concentrations among boys (r -0.61, P<0.01; r -0.43, P<0.05). It is conceivable that milk fat contains or is associated with some component in the diet, or some other characteristics of the food intake, which counterbalances the expected positive relationships between saturated fat intake and lipid levels.

Keywords

Milk fatFatty acid compositionSerum lipids
Type
Research Article
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 85 , Issue 3 , March 2001 , pp. 333 - 341
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 2001

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