Exploring the quality of urban green spaces and their association with health: An epidemiological study on obesity using Street View technology.

Objectives: Evidence suggests that access to urban green spaces (UGS) may encourage physical exercise and impact nutritional status and health. Nevertheless, the quality of UGS is an understudied area. Novel digital tools allow the analysis of urban environments.

[Adverse socio-economic conditions associated with the presence of obesity and its metabolic comorbidities in adults in San Luis, Argentina ].

The prevalence of obesity depends on biopsychosocial and environmental factors and represents a risk factor for communicable and non-communicable diseases. Objectives: To determine the association between demographic, socioeconomic and lifestyle characteristics and the presence of obesity and its metabolic comorbidities (MC) in adults in San Luis City, Argentina. Observational population-based cross-sectional study of 306 individuals aged 18-85 years from San Luis, Argentina, selected by multistage random sampling, with an overweight prevalence of 35% and a 0.

Non-traditional data sources in obesity research: a systematic review of their use in the study of obesogenic environments.

Background: The complex nature of obesity increasingly requires a comprehensive approach that includes the role of environmental factors. For understanding contextual determinants, the resources provided by technological advances could become a key factor in obesogenic environment research. This study aims to identify different sources of non-traditional data and their applications, considering the domains of obesogenic environments: physical, sociocultural, political and economic.

[Environmental sociodemographic conditions associated with health-nutrition profiles among elderly people, Córdoba-Argentina].

Introduction: Demographic trends indicate that population aging is not exclusive to developed countries. Argentina reaches 15.5% of the elderly population.

[A population-based study on seroprevalence and factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in Córdoba, Argentina].

Seroepidemiological studies help identify the indirect distribution of diseases, detecting serological markers of immunity and demonstrating undiagnosed infections in the general population. The objectives were to estimate the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Córdoba, Argentina, from December 2020 to January 2021 and to identify factors associated with the virus' contagiousness. A population-based cross-sectional observational study was performed in 3,225 individuals over two years of age living in Córdoba city, selected by multiple-stage random sampling proportional to distribution by gender, age group, and socioeconomic status in the city's population.

[Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 and its relationship with illness and death from COVID-19 in ArgentinaVacinação contra SARS-CoV-2 e sua relação com doença e morte por COVID-19 na Argentina].

Objective: To determine the effectiveness of vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in preventing illness and death from COVID-19 in Córdoba, Argentina, during the period from January through June 2021.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted among 1,139,458 residents of the province of Córdoba. Multiple logistic regression models were developed to describe the relationship between vaccination and the presence of SARS-CoV-2 or death from COVID-19, while taking account of comorbidities and chronic disease risk factors and adjusting for sex and age.

Sociodemographic disparities and contextual factors in obesity: updated evidence from a National Survey of Risk Factors for Chronic Diseases.

Objective: To assess the association of sociodemographic and environmental factors with the obesity occurrence in Argentina from a sex- and age-comparative perspective and a multilevel approach.

Design: Cross-sectional study based on secondary data from the National Survey of Chronic Diseases Risk Factors (CDRF) 2018, Argentina. Two-level logistic regression models stratified by sex and age were used.

[Food patterns in Argentinian women related to socioeconomic and health factors during puerperium].

Introduction: Food choices and nutritional requirements of women, which vary throughout their life cycle, are unknown for Argentinian women.

Objective: To identify Argentinian women’s dietary patterns and their relation to socioeconomic and health characteristics, during puerperium.

Method: The food intake of 249 puerperal women was assessed for a cross-sectional study.

[Evolution of nutritional status in physical education students, associated with the level of cardiovascular risk, food consumption and the level of physical activity].

Introduction: The prevalence of overweight and obesity increases in university students as a consequence of the modification of their eating habits and their level of physical activity. The general objective of this work was to analyze the relationship between the nutritional status of Physical Education students and the level of physical activity, cardiovascular risk and eating habits, during the first three years of the degree.

Method: Observational, descriptive and longitudinal section study.

Association of PTP4A3 expression and tumour size in functioning pituitary adenoma: a descriptive study.

Background: PTP4A3 is a subclass of a protein tyrosine phosphatase super family and is expressed in a range of epithelial neoplasms. We evaluated PTP4A3 expression and its association with clinicopathological parameters in different types of functioning pituitary adenomas.

Methods: A total of 34 functioning pituitary adenomas samples were evaluated in this observational study.

Diet Quality, Obesity and Breast Cancer Risk: An Epidemiologic Study in Córdoba, Argentina.

Breast cancer (BC) is a multifactorial disease. Environmental factors, specifically, obesity and diet quality, have been linked with an increased risk of BC in women. This research was aimed at assessing the association of diet quality with BC risk, considering nutritional status, in Córdoba province (Argentina).

The inflammatory potential of Argentinian diet and oral squamous cell carcinoma.

Introduction: the goal of this study was to evaluate whether an association exists between dietary components related to inflammation and oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) in Argentina. Methods: a case-control study was carried out with 3 controls for each case and participants of both genders who were between 24 and 85 years of age, who were recruited at the outpatient clinic, Odontology School, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, between 2012 and 2015. Dietary information was collected using a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire from which energy-adjusted Dietary Inflammatory Index (E-DIITM) scores were computed.

Nutrition transition profiles and obesity burden in Argentina.

Objective: The present study aimed to identify nutrition transition (NT) profiles in Argentina (2005-2013) and assess their association with obesity in the adult population.

Design: A large cross-sectional study was performed considering data sets of nationally representative surveys. A multiple correspondence analysis coupled with hierarchical clustering was conducted to detect geographical clusters of association among sociodemographic and NT indicators.

Association of the glycaemic index and glycaemic load with colorectal cancer in the population of Córdoba (Argentina): results of a case-control study using a multilevel modelling approach.

The glycaemic index (GI) and glycaemic load (GL) are involved in the aetiology of different diseases, and they could be related to the development of colorectal cancer (CRC). The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between the quality and quantity indicators of carbohydrates consumed by the population of Córdoba (Argentina) and the odds of developing CRC in 2008-2016 period. A case-control study was conducted with 492 participants (161/331 cases/controls), interviewed through a validated FFQ.

Do Exposure to Arsenic, Occupation and Diet Have Synergistic Effects on Prostate Cancer Risk?

Background: Diverse environmental exposures, as well as dietary and lifestyle factors, are associated with prostate cancer (PC) etiology; however little is known about joint interactive influences. The aim of this study was to analyse effects of diet combined with arsenic in drinking water and agricultural occupation on PC risk. Methods: A case-control study was conducted in Córdoba, Argentina (period 2008-2015) including 147 cases of PC and 300 controls.

Blood iron levels in accordance with adherence to a gluten-free diet in celiac school aged children.

Introduction: Celiac disease (CD) causes intestinal damage, inability to absorb nutrients, and progressive malnutrition. Iron deficiency is one of the predominant nutritional problems. A strict gluten-free diet (GF) allows for an optimal quality of life.

Identification of dietary patterns in urban population of Argentina: study on diet-obesity relation in population-based prevalence study.

Background/objectives: In Argentina, obesity prevalence rose from 14.6% in 2005 to 20.8% in 2013.

RED MEAT, MICRONUTRIENTS AND ORAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA OF ARGENTINE ADULT PATIENTS.

Introduction: the identification of risk group of oral cancer allows reducing the typical morbidity and mortality rates of this pathology.

Objetive: it was analyzed the role of red meat, macronutrients and micronutrients on Oral Squamous Cell carcinoma (OSCC) in a case-control study carried out in Cordoba, Argentina.

Methods: case-control study 3:1, both genders, aged 24-80 years.

[Nutritional status in university students: its relation to the number of daily intakes and macronutrients consumption].

Introduction: There is increasing scientific evidence that nutrition influence positive and negative on health along life. Many studies have reported that the student population is a particularly vulnerable group from the nutritional point of view, due to it is characterized by meal skipping frequently and nibble between eating occasions.

Objective: to establish the relationship between the number of daily dietary intakes and nutritional status in male students aged 23 to 33 years of the National Technological University, in the city of Córdoba, in 2013.

[Cancer and its association with dietary patterns in Córdoba (Argentina)].

Introduction: Feeding habits play a prominent role in carcinogenesis. The dietary patterns approach applied to the study of chronic diseases is of increasing interest in nutritional epidemiology. Nevertheless, it has been seldom used in Latin America.

Cancer incidence and pattern of arsenic concentration in drinking water wells in Córdoba, Argentina.

Cancer occurrence is associated with Arsenic (As) in drinking water. In Argentina, there are high As concentrations in groundwater but there is no published evidence yet of an association between geographic patterns of cancer incidence and the distribution of As in groundwater supplies. The purpose of this study is to assess the association between cancer incidence patterns and As in Córdoba province's aquifers.