Interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor-α, and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein for optimal immunometabolic profiling of the lifestyle-related cardiorenal risk.

Objectives: The present study aimed to identify optimal inflammatory biomarkers involved in cardiorenal risk in response to major lifestyle factors.

Methods: One hundred and twenty-nine adults aged 35-77 years participated voluntarily from 2017 to 2019 (Córdoba, Argentina) in a cross-sectional study to collect sociodemographic, clinical, and lifestyle data. Blood biomarkers (different cytokines, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 [MCP-1], and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein [hs-CRP]) were measured using standard methods and then evaluated by principal component analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM) according to Mediterranean diet adherence, physical activity level, and waist circumference, while cardiorenal risk involved blood diastolic pressure, HDL-cholesterol, triacylglycerols, creatinine, and glycosylated hemoglobin.

A geospatial analysis of cardiometabolic diseases and their risk factors considering environmental features in a midsized city in Argentina.

New approaches to the study of cardiometabolic disease (CMD) distribution include analysis of built environment (BE), with spatial tools as suitable instruments. We aimed to characterize the spatial dissemination of CMD and the associated risk factors considering the BE for people attending the Non-Invasive Cardiology Service of Hospital Nacional de Clinicas in Córdoba City, Argentina during the period 2015-2020. We carried out an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study performing non-probabilistic convenience sampling.

Long-term effects of different exercise training modes on cytokines and adipokines in individuals with overweight/obesity and cardiometabolic diseases: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression of randomized controlled trials.

The present study aimed to investigate the evidence on the effects of different long-term training interventions (aerobic [AeT], resistance [RT], and combined [COMB]) and spontaneous physical activity (PA) in modifying cytokines and adipokines in individuals with overweight or obesity with or without cardiometabolic diseases while considering potential confounders. Although exercise interventions have become a potentially effective tool for preventing and treating metabolic diseases, the evidence provided by previous systematic reviews is inconclusive since several potential confounders have yet to be addressed. Therefore, we conducted a systematic literature search in Medline, Cochrane, and Embase databases from January 2000 to July 2022 and performed a meta-analysis.

[Nutrigenetics: potentials and applications in cardiovascular diseases and associated risk factors].

Introduction: From nutrigenetics, the genetic variation to dietary response, it is possible to understand and modulate the clinical response conditioned by the genotype by the diet.

Objetive: to explore the bibliographic evidence on the potential of nutrigenetics in the approach and treatment of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and associated risk factors.

Materials And Methods: a systematic search was carried out in the electronic databases MEDLINE, EMBASE and Google Scholar.

[Evolution of nutritional status, immunological and virological parameters in children with vertically transmitted HIV under antiretroviral treatment].

Introduction: continuous growth monitoring allows the identification of anthropometric and metabolic disorders as an integral part of HIV treatment. It was proposed to analyze the evolution of nutritional status, with the immunological and virological parameters in children infected with vertically transmitted HIV and its association with highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART).

Material And Methods: were included 56 children aged 0 to 12 years, attending the Hospital Materno Neonatal of Córdoba, Argentina between 1998-2014.

Dietary patterns and blood pressure in Southern Cone of Latin America.

Background And Aims: in the Southern Cone of Latin America, previous studies have shown that blood hypertension is one of the most significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and diet plays a fundamental role. We analyzed the cross-sectional relationship between dietary patterns (DP) and blood pressure values in people involved in the CESCAS I Study.

Methods And Results: the participants (n = 4626) were derived from randomly selected samples in 4 cities (Bariloche and Marcos Paz, Argentina; Temuco, Chile; and Pando-Barros Blancos, Uruguay).

[Validation, reproducibility, and reliability of food photographic record for food intake assessment].

Introduction: food intake records are a useful resource for diet assessment, as well as for self-evaluation, self-control, and self-motivation to change an eating behavior. New technologies based on mobile phones permit a different way of recording food intake. Objective: to validate and assess food photographic record (FPR) as a useful instrument in professional practice for assessing food intake.

High ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease ratio in a population-based registry from Córdoba, Argentina.

Background: Few studies have described the epidemiology and clinical behavior of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in South America. The aim of this study was to report on the prevalence, phenotype, and treatment of patients with IBD diagnosis in Capital Department of the Province of Córdoba, Argentina.

Methods: Data from adult patients (≥ 18 years-old) with IBD diagnosis that attended 12 public or private centers between 05/2014 and 05/2019 were included in a common registry.

Stress, Dietary Patterns and Cardiovascular Disease: A Mini-Review.

According to the World Health Organization, an unhealthy diet and insufficient physical activity are the leading global risks to health. Dietary behavior is a modifiable factor in cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention. Furthermore, the fact that cardiovascular events and stress-related emotional disorders share a common epidemiology may indicate the existence of pathways linking these two diseases (Chauvet-Gelinier and Bonin, 2017).

Associations between major dietary patterns and biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction in two urban midsized cities in Argentina.

Objective: We examined whether dietary patterns (DPS) are associated with endothelial dysfunction (ED) markers in an Argentinian population.

Research Methods & Procedures: The sample in this cross-sectional study was derived from 1,983 subjects from two mid-sized cities in Argentina who were involved in the CESCAS I Study. To define DP, a food-frequency questionnaire was applied.

Understanding Synergistic Toxicity of Terpenes as Insecticides: Contribution of Metabolic Detoxification in .

Essential oils, which are mixtures of terpenes, frequently show stronger insecticide activity, i.e., lower lethal dose 50 (LC), than their most abundant terpenes.

Omega-3 and Omega-6 salivary fatty acids as markers of dietary fat quality: A cross-sectional study in Argentina.

The use of saliva for analyzing biological compounds has recently been expanded. The aim of this study was to analyze the correlation between specific dietary sources of n3 and n6 fatty acids (FA) and their salivary levels to evaluate their role as intake markers. Seventynine healthy volunteers were included.

A Moveable Feast: Insects Moving at the Forest-Crop Interface Are Affected by Crop Phenology and the Amount of Forest in the Landscape.

Edges have become prevailing habitats, mainly as a result of habitat fragmentation and agricultural expansion. The interchange of functionally relevant organisms like insects occurs through these edges and can influence ecosystem functioning in both crop and non-crop habitats. However, very few studies have focused on the directionality of insect movement through edges, and the role of crop and non-crop amount has been ignored.

[Validity and reproducibility of a food frequency questionnaire to assess lipid and phytochemical intake].

Background: epidemiological studies have been related food intake with the incidence of non-transmissible chronic diseases.

Objective: the purpose of the present study was to analyze the validity and reproducibility of a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) aimed at assessing lipid and phytochemical intake.

Material And Methods: FFQ was administered to 45 people of both sexes, aged between 20 and 72 years old and resident in Cordoba, Argentina.

Influence of food patterns on endothelial biomarkers: a systematic review.

The purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic review on the association of food patterns (FPs) and endothelial biomarkers. An electronic literature search from 1990 to 2012 was conducted and reference lists and experts were consulted. Studies without dietary intervention and without language restrictions were considered.

[Human milk in hospitalized premature neonates and nutritional evolution].

Background: Preterm infants require special considerations than term infants to obtain adequate growth.

Objective: The aim was to evaluate human milk (HM) in low birth weight premature newborn (LBW-PN) and very low birth weight (VLBW-PN) during hospitalization, maternal factors, and the relationship with nutritional parameters.

Material And Methods: 87 LBW-PN and 82 VLBW-PN), admitted in a public hospital in Córdoba, Argentina, were included.

Validation of a self-administered FFQ in adults in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.

Objective: To assess the reproducibility and validity among adults in the Southern Cone of Latin America (Argentina, Chile and Uruguay) of a self-administered FFQ to be used in the CESCAS I Study, an ongoing observational prospective cohort study to detect and follow up CVD and their risk factors, as well as in other epidemiological studies.

Design: Relative validity of the FFQ was evaluated by comparing nutrient and selected food group intakes with those from three 24 h recalls (24HR) administered over 6 months. The FFQ was administered at baseline (FFQ1) and again after 3 months (FFQ2).

Common genetic variants in the endothelial system predict blood pressure response to sodium intake: the GenSalt study.

BACKGROUND We examined the association between 14 endothelial system genes and salt-sensitivity of blood pressure (BP). METHODS After a 3-day baseline examination, during which time the usual diet was consumed, 1,906 Chinese participants received a 7-day low-sodium diet (51.3 mmol of sodium/day) followed by a 7-day high-sodium diet (307.

Lipid characterization of human saliva.

Salivary lipids have been scarcely studied, and the reported results present disparities. This literature review is presented based on the importance of saliva as a diagnostic and/or prognostic medium for various diseases, its lipid content, and on its potential use for the analysis of nutritional markers that contribute to the study of diseases related to lipid consumption and metabolism.

Biomarker assessment in nutritional modulation of oxidative stress-induced cancer development by lipid-related bioactive molecules.

Cancer, a leading cause of death, can be prevented by different nutrients, in accordance to epidemiological and experimental data. Cancer chemoprevention might involve different dietary substances, which can counteract genetic damage and modulate the acquisition of a neoplastic phenotype. Critical to this process is redox cellular homeostasis, with antioxidants and essential biomolecules being the most promising functional compounds of the diet.

Response of Epilachna paenulata to two flavonoids, pinocembrin and quercetin, in a comparative study.

We examined the effects of the flavonoids pinocembrin and quercetin on the feeding behavior, survival, and development of the Cucurbitaceae pest Epilachna paenulata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). In no-choice experiments, 48 hr-consumption of Cucurbita maxima Duch. leaves treated with pinocembrin at 1, 5, and 50 microg/cm(2) was less than one third of that for leaves treated with 0.

[Development of a software program for nutrition studies].

The Interfood v. 1.3 software program was developed to process nutrition information and generate data on dietary intakes--in terms of food, nutrients, and phytochemical substances--valid for conducting studies on nutrition and epidemiology.