Association of Dietary Patterns with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Mexican Adults: Insights from a Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study Vázquez Aguilar, Alejandra Rueda Robles, Ascensión Rivas García, Lorenzo Vázquez Lorente, Héctor Duque Soto, Carmen Jiménez López, Karla Lizbet Marín Arriola, Isabel Cristina Sánchez Jiménez, Martha Alicia López Uriarte, Patricia Josefina Dietary patterns Mexican adults Overweight Dietary patterns (DPs) are an essential tool to analyze the relationship between diet and health as they have presented an association with the incidence of chronic non-communicable diseases. Therefore, the aim of this study was the identification and characterization of DPs and their association with cardiovascular risk factors. For this purpose, a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out in 165 Mexican adults, including dietary intakes derived from a validated food frequency questionnaire, clinical history, anthropometry, and biochemical biomarkers using standardized procedures for glucose, total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL-c, and HDL-c. DPs were identified through principal component analysis and ordinal logistic regression was used to examine associations between DPs and cardiovascular disease risk factors. Three DPs were identified: Mexican Fast-Food, Variety-Food, and Healthy-Economic, with a high prevalence of overweight and obesity (78%). Having a high adherence to a Mexican Fast-Food pattern (OR 1.71 CI 1.4–2.8), being sedentary (OR 4.85 2.32–10.15) and smoking (0R 6.4 CI 2.40–16.9) increased the risk of having a high scale of risk factors (four or more risk factors simultaneously). In conclusion, the Mexican Fast-Food pattern showed an increase in the risk of having multiple risk factors, while a sedentary lifestyle and overeating were largely responsible for the prevalence of overweight and obesity in this group of Mexican adults. 2024-05-16T08:49:18Z 2024-05-16T08:49:18Z 2024-03-12 journal article Vázquez-Aguilar, A.; Rueda-Robles, A.; Rivas-García, L.; Vázquez-Lorente, H.; Duque-Soto, C.M.; Jiménez-López, K.L.; Marín- Arriola, I.C.; Sánchez-Jiménez, M.A.; López-Uriarte, P.J. Association of Dietary Patterns with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Mexican Adults: Insights from a Cross- Sectional Descriptive Study. Nutrients 2024, 16, 804. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16060804 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/91857 10.3390/nu16060804 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional MDPI