Are dietary intake and nutritional status influenced by gender? The pattern of dietary intake in Lao PDR: a developing country.

Background: Recognition of discrepancies between men and women in nutritional intake is important to tackle food and nutrition insecurity and the often-double burden of malnutrition. The purpose of this study was to assess nutritional status and dietary intake of the Lao population, with a focus on possible influences of gender.

Methods: Dietary intake was assessed in a national cross-sectional study of 1771 randomized participants aged from 1.