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Climate, Food Systems, Diet, Nutrition and Health (Poster Session)

(P19-009-24) Peruvian Diet Adherence to the EAT – Lancet Reference Diet and Its Association With Socio-Demographics Factors

Monday, July 1, 2024
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM CT
Location: Poster Board 88

    Presenting Author(s)

  • Carla Tarazona Meza, MPH, LN

    PhD candidate
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
    Baltimore, Maryland, United States

    • Co-Author(s)

  • KC

    Katherine Curi-Quinto, PhD

    Researcher
    Nutritional Research Institute & Nutrition School of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
    Lima, Lima, Peru

    • Co-Author(s)

  • AA

    Anthony Aquino-Ramírez

    Instituto de Investigación Nutricional
    Lima, Lima, Peru

  • GL

    Giovanna López

    External collaborator of the Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, Mexico

Disclosure(s):
Carla Tarazona Meza, MPH, LN: No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.


Objectives: To assess the Peruvian adult diet adherence to the EAT-Lancet Healthy Reference Diet (EAT-HRD) and its association with socio-demographic factors.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional analysis of secondary data from 914 Peruvian adults (18 – 59 years) who participated in the National Survey of Food and Nutritional Surveillance by Life Stages (2017-2018). Dietary data was collected using a single 24-hour recall to estimate the EAT- HRD score and evaluate the population's adherence to it. We characterized the population by the total EAT-HRD score and its food components. Weighted multivariable linear regression models were used to identify the sociodemographic associated factors such as sex, age, place of residence, wealth index and education level.

Results: The mean participant age was 38.1 years ± 1.7. The mean EAT-HRD score was 69.2 out of 140 points (CI 95% 68.2 – 70.2) with statistically significant differences by sex (70.5 for women vs 67.5 for men; p=0.036) and poverty condition (71.7 in poor vs 68.7 in non-poor; p=0.004); in crude analyses. In adjusted models, the EAT-HRD score increased among women (β: 2.96 CI 95% 0.86 – 5.07); while there was a statistically significant interaction between poverty and region of residence (β: 5.58 CI 95% 0.42 – 10.73), showing a higher score in participants under poverty than non-poverty condition in the most urbanized areas. Regarding the food components of the EAT-HRD, Peruvian adults’ intake of whole grains, vegetables, nuts, legumes, and soybeans was below the recommendations; whereas intake of tubers and starchy vegetables; red and processed meat; chicken and other poultry; eggs and added sugar and fruit juice, was above the recommendations. Also, urban participants had a lower intake of whole grains; tubers and starchy vegetables; and higher intake of vegetables but also red and processed meat; chicken and poultry; and added sugar and fruit, than their rural counterparts.

Conclusions: Peruvian adult diet had low adherence to the EAT-HRD with differences by sex, poverty, and place of residence. Further analysis considering these heterogeneities and the adequacy of critical nutrients in the context of malnutrition in the Peruvian population are needed to promote healthy and sustainable diets.

Funding Sources: Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, Peru; Fogarty Center, USA