%0 Journal Article
%T Familial Resemblance in Dietary Intakes of Children, Adolescents, and Parents: Does Dietary Quality Play a Role?
%A Angie S. Page
%A Antje Hebestreit
%A D谷nes Moln芍r
%A Garrath Williams
%A Iris Pigeot
%A Jaakko Kaprio
%A Karri Silventoinen
%A Lauren Lissner
%A Leonie H. Bogl
%A Lucia A. Reisch
%A Luis A. Moreno
%A Nathalie Michels
%A Paola Russo
%A Stalo Papoutsou
%A Timm Intemann
%A Toomas Veidebaum
%A Valeria Pala
%J Archive of "Nutrients".
%D 2017
%R 10.3390/nu9080892
%X Information on familial resemblance is important for the design of effective family-based interventions. We aimed to quantify familial correlations and estimate the proportion of variation attributable to genetic and shared environmental effects (i.e., familiality) for dietary intake variables and determine whether they vary by generation, sex, dietary quality, or by the age of the children. The study sample consisted of 1435 families (1007 mothers, 438 fathers, 1035 daughters, and 1080 sons) from the multi-center I.Family study. Dietary intake was assessed in parents and their 2每19 years old children using repeated 24-h dietary recalls, from which the usual energy and food intakes were estimated with the U.S. National Cancer Institute Method. Food items were categorized as healthy or unhealthy based on their sugar, fat, and fiber content. Interclass and intraclass correlations were calculated for relative pairs. Familiality was estimated using variance component methods. Parent每offspring (r = 0.11每0.33), sibling (r = 0.21每0.43), and spouse (r = 0.15每0.33) correlations were modest. Parent每offspring correlations were stronger for the intake of healthy (r = 0.33) than unhealthy (r = 0.10) foods. Familiality estimates were 61% (95% CI: 54每68%) for the intake of fruit and vegetables and the sum of healthy foods and only 30% (95% CI: 23每38%) for the sum of unhealthy foods. Familial factors explained a larger proportion of the variance in healthy food intake (71%; 95% CI: 62每81%) in younger children below the age of 11 than in older children equal or above the age of 11 (48%; 95% CI: 38每58%). Factors shared by family members such as genetics and/or the shared home environment play a stronger role in shaping children＊s intake of healthy foods than unhealthy foods. This suggests that family-based interventions are likely to have greater effects when targeting healthy food choices and families with younger children, and that other sorts of intervention are needed to address the intake of unhealthy foods by children
%K familial aggregation
%K familial resemblance
%K familiality
%K shared environment
%K family study
%K dietary intake
%K diet quality
%K healthy diet
%K young children
%K adolescence
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5579685/