Publications by authors named "Amanda Cristina da Silva de Jesus"

Objective: To evaluate food consumption in Brazil by race/skin color of the population.

Methods: Food consumption data from the Pesquisa de Orçamentos Familiares (POF - Household Budget Survey) 2017-2018 were analyzed. Food and culinary preparations were grouped into 31 items, composing three main groups, defined by industrial processing characteristics: 1 - in natura/minimally processed, 2 - processed, and 3 - ultra-processed.

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Objective: To describe the socioeconomic and nutritional characteristics of children and adolescents with sickle cell anemia.

Data Sources: The present study is a systematic literature review based on published scientific articles. The searches were carried out using the electronic database of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health- PubMed.

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