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We observed rice preference (consuming rice more frequently than wheat; 7.84% for men and 8.28% for women) was associated with a lower risk of excessive body fat (OR, 0.743; 95%CI, 0.669–0.826) and central obesity (OR, 0.886; 95%CI, 0.807–0.971) in men; and with lower risk of central obesity (OR, 0.898; 95%CI, 0.836–0.964) in women, compared with their wheat preference counterparties. Furthermore, similar but stronger inverse associations were observed in participants with normal body mass index. Wheat-to-rice (5 times/week) reallocations were associated with a 36.5% lower risk of normal-weight obesity in men and a 20.5% lower risk of normal-weight central obesity in women. Our data suggest that, compared with wheat, rice preference could be associated with lower odds ratios of certain obesity phenotypes in the Northwest Chinese population.</jats:p>","journal":"Nutrients","year":2022,"id":654041,"datarank":0.5788286449134143,"base_score":2.70805020110221,"endowment":2.70805020110221,"self_citation_contribution":0.40620753016533157,"citation_network_contribution":0.17262111474808278,"self_endowment_contribution":0.40620753016533157,"citer_contribution":0.17262111474808278,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":14,"citer_count":8,"citers_with_citation_signal":6,"citers_with_endowment":6,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1061492,"name":"Binyan Zhang","orcid":"0000-0001-6307-9623","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1706800,"name":"Yezhou Liu","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":483596,"name":"Baibing Mi","orcid":"0000-0002-5208-7633","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1061494,"name":"Yutong Wang","orcid":"0000-0001-5841-5071","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1706801,"name":"Yuefan Shen","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1706802,"name":"Guoshuai Shi","orcid":null,"position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":483599,"name":"Shaonong Dang","orcid":"0000-0002-6980-8169","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":683523,"name":"Xin Liu","orcid":"0000-0001-5105-0532","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":710392,"name":"Hong Yan","orcid":"0000-0003-3931-1757","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1061493,"name":"Kun Xu","orcid":"0000-0003-2310-4745","position":0,"is_corresponding":false}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":{"has_enrichment":true,"resolved":true,"title":"Staple Food Preference and Obesity Phenotypes: The Regional Ethnic Cohort Study in Northwest China","abstract":"<jats:p>Staple food preference vary in populations, but evidence of its associations with obesity phenotypes are limited. 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