Publications by authors named "Miguel Angelo Duarte-Junior"
Meeting 24-hour movement guidelines and mortality risk in older adults: cross-sectional and longitudinal pooled analysis in the Seniors-ENRICA cohorts.
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci
December 2024
Background: We assessed the association of adherence to the guidelines and subsequent changes over time in adherence with all-cause mortality.
Methods: We used data from 3518 and 3273 older adults, aged 60-96 years at baseline, from Seniors-ENRICA-1 and 2 cohorts, respectively. Adherence to 24-hour movement guidelines was defined as ≥150 minutes/week of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), sedentary behavior (SB) ≤8 hours/day (including ≤3 hours/day of recreational screen time), and 7-9 hours/day of sleep if aged 18-64y or 7-8 hours/day if aged ≥65y.
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- The study investigated the link between chronotype (morningness/eveningness) and obesity indicators in Spanish adolescents.
- A sample of 820 adolescents, aged 12-17, was analyzed using various obesity metrics while accounting for factors like age, sex, and diet.
- Results indicated that those with a morningness chronotype are more likely to exhibit higher levels of abdominal obesity, suggesting a need for targeted interventions for this group.
We examined associations between nighttime sleep and midday nap duration with all-cause mortality according to adherence to moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) recommendations in older adults. We used data from 3518 and 3273 older adults recruited in the Seniors-ENRICA-1 and 2 cohorts, respectively. Nighttime sleep time was classified as short (< 7 h), middle (≥ 7 and < 8 h), and long (≥ 8 h), and midday napping as no nap, short (≤ 30 min), long (> 30 and ≤ 60 min), and very long (> 60 min).
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- The study investigates the prevalence of obesity among Ecuadorian children and adolescents aged 5-17 years, revealing an obesity rate of 12.7%.
- It identifies factors that reduce the risk of obesity, such as the educational level of breadwinners, daily physical activity, and vegetable consumption, while highlighting increased odds of obesity among those from lower wealth families and specific regions.
- The findings emphasize the urgent need for tailored public health interventions that consider sociodemographic and lifestyle factors to address the growing obesity crisis among young people in Ecuador.
Lifestyle behaviors, social and economic disadvantages, and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: results from the US National Health Interview Survey.
Front Public Health
March 2024
Aim: To examine the independent relationships of lifestyle and social and economic factors with all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality in a large representative sample of the US adult population. Furthermore, the association between the combination of lifestyle and social and economic factors with mortality was analyzed in detail.
Methods: The sample included 103,314 participants with valid records and eligible for mortality follow-up, and information on lifestyle factors and social and economic disadvantages (NHIS waves 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015).
Aim: To determine the prevalence of adolescents who meet muscle-strengthening activities (MSA) recommendation and their associations with anthropometric variables, physical fitness, and lifestyle behaviours in a sample of Spanish adolescents aged 12-17 years.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional study using data from The Eating Healthy and Daily Life Activities (EHDLA) Study. Participants reported the days on which they engaged in MSA (≥3 days per week were considered to meet World Health Organization recommendation).
Objective: To assess the association of physical activity (PA) type, volume, intensity, and changes over time with all-cause mortality in older adults.
Methods: We used data from 3518 and 3273 older adults recruited in the Seniors-ENRICA-1 and 2 cohorts. PA was assessed with the EPIC questionnaire.
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- The American Heart Association created the Life's Essential 8 (LE8) score to promote cardiovascular disease prevention, and this study examined its prevalence in Spain and its link to deaths from all causes and cardiovascular diseases (CVD).
- Data was collected from over 11,600 adults in Spain, analyzing 8 health metrics, including diet, exercise, and blood pressure, to calculate the LE8 score, which ranges from 0 to 100.
- Results showed that 13.2% of participants had low cardiovascular health, and higher LE8 scores were significantly associated with reduced mortality rates for both all causes and CVD.
Objective: To assess the association of physical activity (PA) with cause-specific cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality among people with preexisting CVD and to analyze the relationship of PA with CVD-related mortality in people without CVD as well as the association of PA with nonspecific CVD mortality in both populations.
Participants And Methods: Of the total participants in the 1997 through 2018 US National Health Interview Survey waves, 87,959 adults with CVD and 527,185 without CVD were included. Leisure-time PA was self-reported; based on frequency and duration, minutes per week in PA were calculated and subsequently classified into: (1) none: 0 min/wk, (2) insufficient: 1 to 149.
Objective: This study aimed to describe the eating habits of para-athletes who attended a specialized training center in Brazil.
Methods: Participants were recruited from the Sports Training Center at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. Energy, macronutrient (expressed in absolute terms and relative to body weight), fiber, cholesterol, and micronutrient intakes were assessed via a food frequency questionnaire, based on intakes over the preceding 12 mo.
Background: Considering the evident risk in the literature between the use of screen devices and sleep, there are still few studies on the relationship between each electronic screen device, media programs and sleep duration and sleep-related problems among adolescents and which variables interfere in these relationships. Therefore, this study has the following objectives: (1) to determine which are the most common electronic display devices related to sleep time and outcomes and (2) to determine which are the most common social network applications, such as Instagram and WhatsApp, associated with sleep outcomes.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional study with 1101 Spanish adolescents between 12 and 17 years old.