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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.768
igaa057.768
Abstracts
Session 2909 (Poster)
Diet and Nutrition
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Anthropometric Measures of Obesity and Food Consumption Among U.S. Chinese Older Adults
Zheng Shenglin  Le Qun  Dong XinQi  
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”238 238
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
Most research uses body mass index (BMI) alone to measure obesity. Combined with waist circumference (WC), BMI may better identify obesity-related health risk. And diet is a key component of obesity management. To better understand the relationship between obesity and diet, this study aims to examine two anthropometric measures of obesity and the food consumption among U.S. Chinese older adults. Data were drawn from the PINE study wave III (2015-2017), a prospective cohort study of community-dwelling Chinese older adults (N=3053). We categorized participants into 6 groups: normal BMI (18.5-24.9) with normal WC (women ≤ 88cm and men ≤102cm), normal BMI with high WC (women WC >88cm and men WC >102cm), overweight (BMI=25.0-29.9) with normal WC, overweight with high WC, obese (BMI >30) with normal WC, and obese with high WC. A forty-eight-item food frequency questionnaire was used to measure frequencies of vegetables, fruits, grains, protein foods, dairy, sweets, and alcohol intake. Almost 12% participants had normal BMI but high WC and 10% were overweight with high WC. Participants who were overweight with high WC reported the highest intake of vegetables among groups. Participants with higher WC had significantly higher fruit consumption, compared to those with normal WC, regardless of their BMI. Spearman correlation analysis showed that being overweight with a high WC was correlated with higher frequencies of vegetables and fruits intake and having normal BMI with normal WC was correlated with higher alcohol intake. The findings provide new insights for future research and interventions on obesity/chronic disease management.