FASEB Journal
Volume 11, Issue 3, 1997

Immigrant Indian/Pakistani (IP) vs Euro-American (EA) women antioxidant nutriture (Article)

West B.* , Bowen P. , Alekel L. , Mortillaro E. , Hussain E. , Stacewicz-Sapuntzakis M. , Viana M.
  • a University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, United States
  • b University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, United States
  • c University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, United States
  • d University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, United States
  • e University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, United States
  • f University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, United States
  • g University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, United States

Abstract

Cardiovascular disease is becoming more prevalent in the immigrant IP population, thus it is important to determine dietary risk factors and examine plasma antioxidant levels. This study determined differences in nutrient exposure and certain plasma antioxidant levels between IP vs EA, 20-40 y, premenopausal women. Non-fasting blood samples were obtained from 28 IP and 32 EA women. Seven-day diet records and reports of supplementation were used to give average daily intakes. Plasma levels of β-carotene (βc), α-carotene (αc), β-cryptoxanthin, lutein/zeaxanthin, lycopene, α-tocopherol, γ-tocopherol (γt), and retinol (Ret) were measured. IP women had significantly lower plasma levels (μM/L) of βc, αc, and Ret (0.27 ± 0.15, 0.07 ± 0.06, 1.45 ± 0.26) vs EAs (0.49 ± 0.41, 0.13 ± 0.08, 1.63 ± 0.27) with p values of 0.01, 0.01, 0.01, respectively. Also notable were higher plasma γt levels (μM/L) (3.92 ± 1.34) among IP vs EA (3.06 ± 1.75) (p<0.05). Although dietary fat intakes (g/d) were similar between the groups IP (57.2 ± 31.0) and EA (53.1 ± 21.5), a higher ratio of poly-unsaturated/saturated fat was noted among IPs (0.87 ± 0.46) compared to EAs (0.62 ± 0.26) (p<0.01). Also significant (p=0.001, <0.05) were the lower intakes of vitamin A (RE/kg BW) and C (mg/kg BW) among IP (14.2 ± 10.0, 2.8 ± 4.2) compared to EA (34.3 ± 28.4, 6.0 ± 6.6), respectively. These results suggest that antioxidant nutrition education may be necessary for the IP immigrants.

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ISSN: 08926638
Original Language: English