Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Physical Sports Sciences, College of Education, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • 2 School of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Terengganu, Malaysia
  • 3 Department of Nutrition and Food Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan
  • 4 Department of Medical Imaging - MRI, King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz University Hospital (KAAUH), Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • 5 Department of Health Sciences, College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Medicine (Baltimore), 2023 Apr 14;102(15):e33555.
PMID: 37058044 DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000033555

Abstract

Adults are increasingly eating fast-food, which is connected to adverse health outcomes such as obesity and chronic diseases. This work was carried out to study the prevalence of fast-food intake among a multi-ethnic population of middle-aged men and its connection with sociodemographic factors and obesity. This cross-sectional study enrolled 1800 middle-aged men from Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A valid and reliable questionnaire was used to assess participants fast-food intake frequency. Fast-food was consumed weekly by 87.8% of participants and daily by 45.6% of participants. The nationality of participants was determined as a predictor of fast-food intake. The highest and lowest prevalence of weekly fast-food intake was reported among Turkish (99.6%) and Sudanese (48.3%) participants. The highest and lowest daily intake rates were reported among participants from the Philippines (85.9%) and Bangladesh (10.0%). Another factor predicting fast-food intake was obesity. Obese participants had a significantly higher odds ratio (OR) of weekly (OR = 5.83, P

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