Maternal food insecurity increases the risk of low birth weight babies: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Aim: To ascertain whether maternal food insecurity was associated with low birth weight of their babies.

Methods: Systematic review conducted following the items of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews-PRISMA, and recorded in PROSPERO. The descriptors food security, low birth weight and infant low birth weight were combined in the electronic databases: Scopus, PubMed, Cochrane Library, Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature and Google Scholar, independently by two researchers, between October 2022 and September 2023.

Influence of COVID-19 on mental health of postpartum women, breastfeeding time and infant development.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic may have affected the mental health of pregnant and postpartum women, influencing the duration of exclusive breastfeeding and the child's neuropsychomotor development.

Research Aim: To evaluate the influence of COVID-19 on the mental health of postpartum women, on the protein and antioxidant profile of breast milk, on the duration of exclusive breastfeeding and on the neuropsychomotor development of their infants.

Methods: Observational study, prospective cohort, with 180 postpartum women.

Body Fat Is Superior to Body Mass Index in Predicting Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Adolescents.

Background: Excess adiposity is one of the main risk factors for the development of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. The purpose of this study is to compare cardiometabolic risk factors in eutrophic adolescents with a high body fat percentage (%BF) with eutrophic adolescents with adequate %BF and those with excess weight and %BF.

Methods: Cross-sectional study with 1043 adolescents.