Publications by authors named "Gina A Castiblanco-Rubio"
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- The study investigated fluoride intake and excretion in Mexican women consuming fluoridated salt, analyzing data from 31 participants through dietary recalls and urine collections.
- Researchers found that median fluoride intake and excretion were around 0.95 and 0.90 mg/day, with better measurement agreements below 1.5 mg/day.
- Three dietary patterns ("Urban Convenience," "Plant-based," and "Egg-based") were identified, with the "Urban Convenience" pattern linked to increased fluoride intake and a slight decrease in urinary fluoride.
Roughness-tactile perception is part of activity assessment in initial-caries-lesions. Hypothesizing that a probe's design influences this examiner's assessment, four probes were designed. The aims of this study were to select the probe with highest inter-/intra-examiners' roughness-assessment agreement and to determine its diagnostic accuracy on artificial initial-caries lesions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEpidemiological studies use biomarkers of fluoride exposure in pregnant women as surrogate measures of fetal fluoride exposure; however, there is little understanding of how pregnancy affects fluoride metabolism and its biomarkers. This narrative review summarizes the changes of pregnancy that have the potential to impact fluoride's absorption, distribution and excretion, and highlights the limited body of evidence on the topic. The physiologic systems that experience pregnancy-associated changes relevant to fluoride's metabolism are the cardiovascular, renal, metabolic and gastrointestinal, as well bone and calcium metabolism and the body's acid-base balance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDietary factors are known to influence urinary fluoride (UF) levels in nonpregnant people. Maternal UF is used as a biomarker of fluoride exposure; however, dietary influences on UF during pregnancy are unknown. We compared UF levels and assessed the associations between UF and five select dietary influences in pregnancy vs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To estimate dietary fluoride intake (F) over the course of pregnancy and the overall adjusted difference in dietary F intake by pregnancy stages and levels of compliance with dietary recommendations.
Design: Secondary data analysis from a longitudinal pregnancy cohort study in a population exposed to fluoridated salt. Women were followed during the early, middle and late stages of their pregnancy (n 568).