230 results match your criteria: "Center for Epidemiological Research[Affiliation]"
Clin Nutr ESPEN
October 2023
Postgraduate Program in Health and Nutrition, School of Nutrition, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Department of Clinical and Social Nutrition, School of Nutrition, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Electronic address:
Background & Aim: The impact of cardiovascular disease attributable to trans fatty acids (TFAs) in the Brazilian population has not been systematically evaluated. This study aims to analyze the burden of ischemic heart disease (IHD) attributable to TFAs in Brazil between 1990 and 2019.
Methods: Data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 were used to investigate the attributable burden in Brazil and its 27 federative units, for both sexes-pooled adults aged ≥25 years.
BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care
September 2023
The Research Unit for Exercise Epidemiology, Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Introduction: This study aimed to describe objectively measured physical activity patterns, including daily activity according to day type (weekdays and weekend days) and the four seasons, frequency, distribution, and timing of engagement in activity during the day in individuals with diabetes and prediabetes and compared with individuals with no diabetes.
Research Design And Methods: This cross-sectional study included data from the Danish household-based, mixed rural-provincial population study, The Lolland-Falster Health Study from 2016 to 2020. Participants were categorized into diabetes, prediabetes, and no diabetes based on their glycated hemoglobin level and self-reported use of diabetes medication.
Sci Rep
August 2023
Center for Epidemiological Research in Nutrition and Health (Nupens), University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil.
The NOVA classification system categorizes foods according to the extent and purpose of industrial processing. Ultra-processed food products (UPF) are frequently composed of excessive amounts of sugars, salt, oils, and fats, and cosmetic additives designed to make them palatable and/or appealing. We aimed to describe the presence of critical nutrients in excess and cosmetic additives in packaged foods and beverages and to evaluate the proportion of UPF that can be correctly identified through the presence of critical nutrients in excess or the presence of cosmetic additives in food products.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAppl Physiol Nutr Metab
December 2023
Department of Family Relations & Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.
In 2019, Health Canada released a new iteration of Canada's Food Guide (2019-CFG), which, for the first time, highlighted recommendations regarding eating practices, i.e., guidance on where, when, why, and how to eat.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAppetite
November 2023
Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo. Av. Dr. Arnaldo, 715 - Cerqueira César, São Paulo, SP, 01246-904, Brazil; Center for Epidemiological Research in Nutrition and Health, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo. Av. Dr. Arnaldo, 715 - Cerqueira César, São Paulo, SP, 01246-904, Brazil.
Purpose: The Brazilian Food Guide (BFG)'s messages are mostly qualitative and focused on food practices, such as meal planning, cooking, and eating modes. This study sough to investigate whether the adherence to these food practices is aligned with diet quality.
Methods: A quota-based subsample of the NutriNet-Brasil Cohort (n = 2052) completed the Food Practices Brazil Scale (FPBr), a 24-item scale assessing the adherence to healthy eating practices recommended by the BFG.
Front Nutr
August 2023
Department of Nutritional Sciences, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Background: Front-of-pack labeling (FOPL) has been identified as a cost-effective policy to promote healthy food environments and to help consumers make healthier food choices. Consumer surveys report that after implementation of mandatory 'high in' FOPL symbols between 30 and 70% of consumers choose or were willing to choose products with fewer 'high in' symbols. Health Canada has recently published FOPL regulations that will require prepackaged food and beverages that meet or exceed thresholds for sodium, total sugars, or saturated fat to display a 'high in' FOPL nutrition symbol.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrev Med
October 2023
Department of Sports and Computer Science, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO), 41013 Seville, Spain; Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Providencia, Chile.
Aim: To investigate the association of social isolation with physical activity and leisure-time sedentary behavior among adolescents.
Methods: We used data from the Global School-based Health Survey, including a representative sample of 296,861 adolescents (11-18y) from 79 countries (48.9% girls, 14.
Public Health Nutr
November 2023
Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo01246-904, Brazil.
Objective: To assess the prospective association of two diet quality scores based on the Nova food classification with BMI gain.
Design: The NutriNet-Brasil cohort is an ongoing web-based prospective study with continuous recruitment of participants aged ≥ 18 years since January 2020. A short 24-h dietary recall screener including 'yes/no' questions about the consumption of whole plant foods (WPF) and ultra-processed foods (UPF) was completed by participants at baseline.
J Affect Disord
October 2023
Epidemiology of Psychiatric Conditions, Substance use and Social Environment (EPiCSS), Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden. Electronic address:
Background: Sedentary behavior (SB; time spent sitting, as distinct from lack of exercise or physical activity) is associated with depression, yet little is known about the relationship between different types of SB (e.g., mentally-passive versus mentally-active) with depression and potential biological mediators of these associations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: Latin America has implemented the world's largest and most consolidated conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs during the last 2 decades. As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, poverty rates have markedly increased, and a large number of newly low-income individuals, especially children, have been left unprotected.
Objective: To evaluate the association of CCT programs with child health in Latin American countries during the last 2 decades and forecast child mortality trends up to 2030 according to CCT alternative implementation options.
BMC Public Health
July 2023
Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), Escuela de Ciencias de la Actividad Física, el Deporte y la Salud, Santiago, Chile.
Background: Previous studies have quantified the current burden of diseases attributable to overweight in Chile. However, no study has estimated the attributable burden of overweight in the future. Herein, we estimated the potential impact of different trajectories in the prevalence of overweight on the incidence and mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Chilean adults from 2019 to 2030.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLoS One
July 2023
Center for Epidemiological Research in Nutrition and Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Background: Dietary risk factors have an important impact on premature deaths and disabilities due to non-communicable diseases. In this study, we perform diet optimization to design different dietary scenarios taking into account food prices and preferences and evaluate the number of deaths that would be prevented as well as the economic burden and costs from the health system that would be saved in Brazil.
Methods: We used dietary intake and food prices data from the nationwide Household Budget Survey (HBS) and the National Dietary Survey (NDS) 2017-2018.
JMIR Rehabil Assist Technol
July 2023
Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Department of Health and Function, Western Norway University of Applies Sciences, Bergen, Norway.
Background: Despite a surge in health information and communication technology (ICT), there is little evidence of lowered cost or increased quality of care. ICT may support patients, health care providers, and other stakeholders through complex rehabilitation trajectories by offering digital platforms for collaboration, shared decision-making, and safe storage of data. Yet, the questions on how ICT can become a useful tool and how the complex intersection between producers and users of ICT should be solved are challenging.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMaturitas
October 2023
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Leuven and University Psychiatric Center, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
Objective: We analyzed the mediating role of handgrip strength in the association between moderate to vigorous physical activity and incident mild cognitive impairment and dementia.
Methods: We used prospective data from 14 European countries participating in the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe. 19,686 participants free of dementia and mild cognitive impairment (64.
Front Nutr
May 2023
Health Sciences Postgraduate Program, Nutrition Department, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil.
Background: Diet quality is associated with psychobiological, psychological, biological, and physiological factors of individuals, and in the context of prolonged stress, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, it can lead to a worsening of the quality of food for undergraduates. This study aimed to analyze diet quality and associated factors in Brazilian undergraduates.
Methods: Data were collected from 4,799 undergraduate students from all Brazilian regions, from August 2020 to February 2021.
Front Nutr
May 2023
Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMC Public Health
May 2023
Research Center of Nutrition and Health, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) represent the main cause of death in Mexico, while high blood pressure is suffered by about half of the adult population. Sodium intake is one of the main risk factors for these diseases. The Mexican adult population consumes about 3.
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June 2023
Center for Epidemiological Research, Nykøbing Falster Hospital, Denmark.
In the Danish population, about one-in-ten adults have prediabetes, undiagnosed, poorly or potentially sub-regulated diabetes, for short DMRC. It is important to offer these citizens relevant healthcare intervention. We therefore built a model for prediction of prevalent DMRC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAppl Physiol Nutr Metab
August 2023
School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
The Canadian Food Intake Screener was developed to rapidly assess alignment of dietary intake with the Canada's Food Guide-2019 healthy food choices recommendations. Scoring is aligned with the Healthy Eating Food Index-2019 to the extent possible. Among a sample of adults, reasonable variation in screener scores was noted, mean screener scores differed between some subgroups with known differences in diet quality, and a moderate correlation between screener scores and total Healthy Eating Food Index-2019 scores based on repeat 24 h dietary recalls was observed.
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May 2023
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the second leading cause of total deaths in Canada. High blood pressure is the main metabolic risk factor for developing CVDs. It has been well established that excess consumption of sodium adversely affects blood pressure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Phys Act Health
August 2023
Department of Sports and Computer Science, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO), Seville,Spain.
Background: To estimate the prevalence of different physical activity (PA) domains and sitting time (ST), and to analyze the association with sociodemographic indicators.
Methods: Data from the most recent nationally representative survey from each of the South American countries, comprising 155,790 adults (18-64 y), were used. Data on leisure-time, transport, and occupational PA (all 3 domains as nonzero), total PA (≥150 min/wk), and ST (≥8 h/d) were assessed by specific questionnaires in each survey.
J Affect Disord
August 2023
Deakin University, IMPACT (the Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation), Food & Mood Centre, School of Medicine, Barwon Health, Geelong, Australia.
Background: Few studies have tested longitudinal associations between ultra-processed food consumption and depressive outcomes. As such, further investigation and replication are necessary. The aim of this study is to examine associations of ultra-processed food intake with elevated psychological distress as an indicator of depression after 15 years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAppl Physiol Nutr Metab
August 2023
School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Front Nutr
March 2023
Department of Nutritional Sciences, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Background: Front-of-pack labeling (FOPL) has been identified as a cost-effective policy to promote healthy diets. Health Canada has recently published FOPL regulations that will require food and beverages that meet or exceed set thresholds for sodium, sugars, or saturated fat to display a 'high in' symbol on the front of the package. Although a promising measure, its potential impact on dietary intakes and health have not yet been estimated in Canada.
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March 2023
Center for Epidemiological Research, Nykøbing Falster Hospital, Nykøbing Falster, Denmark.
Background: Denmark was one of the few countries where it was politically decided to continue cancer screening during the COVID-19 pandemic. We assessed the actual population uptake of mammography and cervical screening during this period.
Methods: The first COVID-19 lockdown in Denmark was announced on 11 March 2020.