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Physiol."],"abstract":"<jats:p><jats:bold>Introduction:<\/jats:bold> The role of dietary fat in the evolution of cardiometabolic disorders is highly controversial. As both dietary intake and the development of cardiometabolic risk differ by sex, we evaluated sex-specific differences in the associations between dietary fats (saturated and unsaturated) and four key cardiometabolic risk factors\u2014lipid profiles, body fat, inflammation, and glucose regulation.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methods:<\/jats:bold> We included 2391 women and men aged \u226530\u00a0years in the prospective Framingham Offspring Cohort. Weight-adjusted dietary fats (saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fats, including omega-3 and omega-6) were derived from 3-day dietary records. Analysis of covariance was used to derive adjusted mean levels of all outcomes.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> In both men and women, intakes of saturated and monounsaturated fats were inversely associated with TG:HDL ratio (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.02 for both types of fat). In women, higher omega-3 and omega-6 PUFAs were also inversely associated with TG:HDL (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.05 for both), but for men, only omega-3 PUFAs were associated (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.026). All types of dietary fat were beneficially associated with larger HDL particle sizes in both men and women, while only saturated and monounsaturated fats were associated with larger LDL particles in men. In addition, saturated and monounsaturated fats were associated with statistically significantly higher concentrations of HDL and lower concentrations of LDL and VLDL particles in both sexes, while polyunsaturated fat had favorable associations in women only. Saturated fat also had beneficial associations with three measures of body fat. For example, women with the highest (vs. lowest) saturated fat intake had a lower BMI (27.7 \u00b1 0.25 vs. 26.2 \u00b1 0.36\u00a0kg\/m<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.001); findings were similar in men (28.2 \u00b1 0.25 vs. 27.1 \u00b1 0.20, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.002). Unsaturated fats had beneficial associations with body fat primarily in women. Finally, omega-3 PUFAs among women were inversely associated with interleukin-6 levels. There was no association between dietary fat intake and fasting glucose levels in either women or men.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Discussion:<\/jats:bold> In sum, we found no evidence of an adverse association between dietary fats and several surrogate markers of cardiometabolic health. This study suggests that different dietary fats may have divergent associations with cardiometabolic risk in women and men, perhaps owing to differences in food sources of the same dietary fats.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fphys.2023.1144200","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,3]],"date-time":"2023-05-03T04:48:05Z","timestamp":1683089285000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Dietary fat intakes, lipid profiles, adiposity, inflammation, and glucose in women and men in the Framingham Offspring Cohort"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Ioanna","family":"Yiannakou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mengjie","family":"Yuan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xinyi","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Martha R.","family":"Singer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lynn L.","family":"Moore","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"2011","DOI":"10.3390\/nu10122011","article-title":"Quality of dietary fat intake and body weight and obesity in a mediterranean population: Secondary analyses within the PREDIMED trial","volume":"10","author":"Beulen","year":"2018","journal-title":"Nutrients"},{"key":"B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"648","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1467-789X.2009.00584.x","article-title":"Anti-obesity effects of long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids","volume":"10","author":"Buckley","year":"2009","journal-title":"Obes. 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