Dietary vitamins intakes status of elderly people of 6 minitoring areas in Zhejiang Province in 2010-2012
Zhang, R.; Zhu, X.; Huang, L.; Zhou, B.; Ding, G.
Wei Sheng Yan Jiu 46(1): 32-35
2017
ISSN/ISBN: 1000-8020 PMID: 29903148 Document Number: 692351
To assess the situations of dietary vitamins intakes among aged 60 years old adults in different areas of Zhejiang Province, and analyze the food sources of vitamins. Data were obtained from the 2010-2012 Chinese National Nutrition and Health Survey in Zhejiang Province. Dietary intakes among elderly people of vitamin A, vitamin B_1, vitamin B_2, vitamin C, vitamin E and their sources were acquired by 24-hour dietary recalls for 3 days in different areas. The elderly people' intakes of VA(296. 85(174. 32, 500. 28) μg RAE/d), VB_1(0. 68(0. 47, 0. 96) mg/d), VB2(0. 65(0. 47, 0. 90) mg /d) and VC(54. 54(33. 65, 83. 82) mg/d) were generally low. Intakes of vitamin B_1, vitamin C and vitamin E were significantly different in different areas( χ~2=41. 201, 39. 262 and 19. 474, P<0. 001). The food sources of vitamins were slightly variant. The insufficient status of vitamins intakes among elderly people in Zhejiang was serious, and there were differences among elderly people from different areas in intakes and food sources of vitamins.