Food insecurity and nutritional status among older adults: a systematic review.

Context: Food insecurity (FI), characterized by difficulty or inability to access adequate food, has become a public health problem.

Objective: To analyze studies relating FI with nutritional status (NS) among older adults and the associated factors.

Data Search: Articles published up to June 2020 were investigated in 5 databases: PubMed, Embase, Scopus, LILACS, and Web of Science.

Alcoholic beverage consumption, changes in blood pressure, and incidence of hypertension in the Longitudinal Adult Health Study (ELSA-Brasil).

Objectives: Alcohol consumption is generally associated with increased risk of hypertension. We aimed to investigate, prospectively, the effect of alcoholic-beverage consumption on blood pressure (BP) and incidence of hypertension, after a 4-y follow-up, in participants of the Longitudinal Adult Health Study (ELSA-Brasil).

Methods: We analyzed information from 3,990 participants (ages 35-74 y), men and women, from educational and research institutions, at baseline (2008-2010) and follow-up (2012-2014).

Diet and Lifestyle Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ibero-American Countries: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Spain.

This study aimed to evaluate changes in dietary and lifestyle habits during the period of confinement due to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ibero-American countries. A cross-sectional investigation was conducted with 6,325 participants of both genders (68% women), over 18 years of age and from five countries: Brazil ( = 2,171), Argentina ( = 1,111), Peru ( = 1,174), Mexico ( = 686), and Spain ( = 1,183). Data were collected during the year 2020, between April 01 and June 30 in Spain and between July 13 and September 26, in the other countries studied using a self-administered online survey designed for the assessment of sociodemographic, employment, physical activity, health status, and dietary habits changes.

Sugar-sweetened soft drinks consumption and risk of hyperuricemia: Results of the ELSA-Brasil study.

Background And Aims: The prospective association between sugar-sweetened beverages consumption and hyperuricemia is controversial. The aim was to investigate the association of the consumption of sugar-sweetened soft drinks and unsweetened fruit juices with the incidence of hyperuricemia and the levels of serum uric acid in the participants of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil).

Methods And Results: Longitudinal analysis in ELSA-Brasil participants (baseline 2008-2010 and follow-up 2012-2014).

Nutritional extremes among school children in a rural Brazilian municipality.

Introduction: Latin America is undergoing rapid demographic and nutritional transitions with the accompanying tendency to overweight as is common in countries emerging from poverty. In Brazil, changes due to the nutritional transition have affected the whole population, both urban and rural. Overweight in a large number of Brazilian children is one of the greatest public policy challenges.

[Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in population-based study, Vitória, ES-Brazil].

Metabolic Syndrome (MS) is a complex disorder including several factors predisposing to development of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. Despite the importance of MS for the health system, the epidemiological characteristics of this condition in the Brazilian population are still scarce. The prevalence of MS as a function of gender, age and socioeconomic level was determined in a population-based study in Vitória, ES, Brazil, by using the NCEP-ATPIII diagnosis criteria.