Letícia De Oliveira Cardoso
Biographic Data
| ID | 161987 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Letícia De Oliveira Cardoso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Letícia De Oliveira |
| FAMILY NAME | Cardoso |
| SIGNATURE | CARDOSO L O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1312-1808 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
School food environment
This study aimed to characterize school canteens and food commercialization practices in private schools located in the capitals of Brazil. A cross-sectional study was conducted based on data from 2.241 school canteens serving elementary and high school levels, collected between 2022 and 2024 as part of the Study on Food Commercialization in Brazilian Schools (Caeb). A validated instrument was used to assess the availability of foods and beverage…
Uso de suplementos e aporte de micronutrientes entre crianças de 6 a 59 meses assistidas na Atenção Primária à Saúde
Objetivo: Descrever o uso de suplementos e o aporte de micronutrientes advindos da alimentação e suplementação de crianças de 6 a 59 meses assistidas em Unidades Básicas de Saúde do SUS no Rio de Janeiro. Métodos: Estudo transversal. Foram coletados dados sobre uso de suplementos e consumo alimentar (recordatório de 24 horas). As análises foram realizadas no software R. Resultados: A prevalência do uso de suplementos foi de 51,0%, sendo 14,1% par…
Associations between social and built environments and cardiovascular disease mortality across 342 Latin American cities
Background: Latin American cities have heterogeneous mortality and urban environment profiles. We aim to describe the variability in cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality across and within cities, and within and between Latin American countries, and investigate the associations between urban environmental features and CVD mortality in these areas. Methods: Using harmonised data from the Salud Urbana en América Latina (i.e. Urban Health in Latin …
Gender and remote work
To investigate the association between hours of remote work (RWHs) and housework (HWHs), independently, as well as the combined total of work hours (WHs), with gender and mental health of remote workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cross-sectional study with data from the ELSA-Brasil (N = 2,318). On average, women reported more time spent on HWHs and WHs than men, while no difference was found in RWHs. Depression, anxiety and stress were more pr…
Tendência temporal de indicadores da operação do Vigitel Brasil (2006 a 2023)
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the time trend of indicators from the Vigitel data collection operation between 2006 and 2023. METHODS: A methodological study that analyzed the temporal trend of three Vigitel operation indicators: eligibility rate, response rate and refusal rate, as well as the number of contacts answered according to days of the week and times of day. A series of linear regressions was used to identify temporal variations for the entire p…
Application of a geospatial query tool to characterise the community food environment and examine associations with dietary quality
Food establishments were unequally distributed across urban Chilean neighbourhoods. Overall, unhealthy outlets are predominant. Higher densities of small and ready-to-consume FE were associated with lower fruit and vegetable consumption. These findings underscore the need for targeted public policies aimed at promoting healthier food environments, reducing social inequalities in food access within Chilean cities, and improving dietary quality
Changes in the frequency of food orders and food choices on meal delivery apps during the Covid-19 pandemic in a Brazilian metropolitan region
The rise of the digital food environment, especially through meal delivery apps, reshapes food consumption habits amid convenience- and pandemic-driven changes. We aimed to describe changes in both frequency of food purchase and food choices made in meal delivery apps during the COVID-19 pandemic. A web-based survey was conducted between May and September 2020 using virtual chain sampling with 986 adults residing in the metropolitan region of Rio…
Panorama da implementação da CID-11 no Brasil
O Brasil iniciou, em 2021, a implementação da 11a Revisão da Classificação Internacional de Doenças (CID-11), com término previsto para 2027. A CID-11 representa um salto tecnológico e conceitual que oferece novas oportunidades de análise epidemiológica e de gestão da saúde, porém impõe desafios de interoperabilidade e de preservação das séries históricas que tornam mais complexa a sua implementação. Considerando a grande extensão territorial do …
Impacto da Regulamentação do Ambiente Alimentar Escolar
Este artigo descreve aspectos metodológicos e caracteriza a participação no primeiro ano do estudo Impacto da Regulamentação do Ambiente Alimentar Escolar. O estudo visa monitorar a comercialização de alimentos nas cantinas e no entorno de escolas privadas de três cidades brasileiras com distintos contextos regulatórios, bem como investigar a percepção dos escolares sobre a cantina. Trata-se de um estudo transversal repetido (2023/2024 e 2025), c…
Probabilidade de morte prematura por doenças crônicas não transmissíveis
As doenças crônicas não transmissíveis (DCNT) são a principal causa de morbimortalidade no Brasil. O estudo visa verificar se a meta de redução das DCNT dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS) até 2030 será alcançada por meio da análise das tendências da probabilidade incondicional de morte prematura entre 1990 e 2021 no Brasil e nas 27 Unidades Federadas. Realizou-se estudo de série temporal sobre a probabilidade de morte prematura (3…
Aspectos metodológicos do estudo Comercialização de Alimentos em Escolas Brasileiras
Este artigo apresenta os aspectos metodológicos da concepção e organização do estudo Comercialização de Alimentos em Escolas Brasileiras, que teve como objetivo avaliar aspectos relacionados à comercialização de alimentos e bebidas em escolas privadas, a partir de informações coletadas com gestores de cantinas escolares e ambulantes presentes no entorno imediato das escolas. Trata-se de um estudo transversal em cantinas escolares e ambulantes no …
Ambiente alimentar de terminais rodoviários da região metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro
PURPOSE: To describe and analyze the healthiness of formal and informal food establishments in bus terminals of the metropolitan region of the state of Rio de Janeiro. METHOD: An audit was conducted in 156 formal and 127 informal food establishments located in 14 bus terminals of the five most populous cities of the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro. Proportions of types of establishments and means (95%CI) of food availability indicators in f…
Conceptual Model on Access to Food in the Favela Food Environment
The inequalities of Brazilian society are amplified in favelas, affecting access to basic sanitation, health, education services, and food. More research is needed to better understand the favela food environment and propose appropriate public food and nutrition policies to increase the availability of and access to healthy food. In this context, this study aimed to develop a conceptual model of the relationship between access to food and the fav…
Relationship between body mass index and residential segregation in large cities of Latin America
While individual-level factors cannot fully explain differences among people in the same city, segregation indices may help. However, we found that in some cases, the relationship between BMI and segregation indices is opposite to what is expected based on prior literature. This should be considered in examining the phenomenon. Further research on obesogenic environments in segregated neighborhoods could provide valuable evidence
Are Neighborhood Greenspaces Associated with Leisure-time Physical Activity? Results from Elsa-Brasil Eight-year Follow-up
Percepção dos residentes de favelas brasileiras sobre o ambiente alimentar
A disponibilidade de venda de alimentos no território pode influenciar no consumo alimentar da população. Entretanto, é importante compreender como as pessoas percebem o seu ambiente alimentar para se entender como essa disponibilidade afeta seu consumo em contextos distintos. O objetivo foi avaliar a percepção dos moradores de favelas brasileiras sobre o ambiente alimentar em suas vizinhanças. Estudo qualitativo, em que foram realizados grupos f…
A segregação residencial socioeconômica está associada aos problemas do sono? Insights do Elsa-Brasil
O sono é influenciado por diversos fatores e é essencial para a saúde. O papel do contexto socioeconômico da vizinhança na saúde do sono foi estudado nos últimos anos, mas os resultados são inconsistentes. O objetivo deste estudo foi investigar a associação entre a segregação residencial socioeconômica e os problemas do sono. Utilizou-se dados da 2a avaliação (2012-2014) de 9.918 servidores públicos participantes do Estudo Longitudinal de Saúde d…
Racial Inequities in the Control of Hypertension and the Explanatory Role of Residential Segregation
Relative validity and reproducibility of WHO indicators for assessment of feeding practices in children under two years of age
The study aimed to evaluate relative validity and reproducibility of seven WHO indicators of dietary practices in children aged 6-23.9 months. Data from probabilistic sample of children who used primary healthcare services in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil were collected using a 24h dietary recall (24HR) and a closed questionnaire (Q1) on feeding in the day before the study. The last one was reapplied (Q2) around 16 days later. Validity was assessed by c…
Digital marketing of online food delivery services in a social media platform before and during Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil
Objective: To describe the promotion of food and beverage and marketing strategies used by online food delivery services (OFDS) in a social media platform before and during the pandemic in Brazil. Design: Publicly available data were extracted from OFDS Instagram accounts. Posts published 6 months immediately before and after the first case of COVID-19 in Brazil were randomly sampled. Two independent authors coded the posts’ content. Food and bev…
The influence of neighborhood safety and built environment on childhood obesity
This study aims to analyze the isolated and combined effect of objective measures concerning neighborhood safety, food, and physical activity environments on students' obesity. This is a cross-sectional study conducted with 9- and 10-year-old children enrolled in the municipal education network of a Brazilian metropolis. Environment objective measures comprised neighborhood unsafety (annual criminality and road traffic accident rates), availabili…
City-Level Travel Time and Individual Dietary Consumption in Latin American Cities
There is limited empirical evidence on how travel time affects dietary patterns, and even less in Latin American cities (LACs). Using data from 181 LACs, we investigated whether longer travel times at the city level are associated with lower consumption of vegetables and higher consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and if this association differs by city size. Travel time was measured as the average city-level travel time during peak hours and…
Potential impacts of policies to reduce purchasing of ultra-processed foods in Mexico at different stages of the social transition
Objectives: To develop a simulation framework for assessing how combinations of taxes, nutrition warning labels and advertising levels could affect purchasing of ultra-processed foods (UPF) in Latin American countries and to understand whether policies reinforce or reduce pre-existing social disparities in UPF consumption. Design: We developed an agent-based simulation model using international evidence regarding the effect of price, nutrition wa…
Food environments and the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil
Evidence of changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in food security and nutrition conditions, as well as in different food environments, has called researchers’ attention to substantial changes taking place in individuals’ dietary habits. The aim of this study is to present and address changes that have already happened in food environments, during the first COVID-19 pandemic year, in a middle-income country. Multiple changes were observed and h…
Is city-level travel time by car associated with individual obesity or diabetes in Latin American cities? Evidence from 178 cities in the Salurbal project
There is growing evidence that longer travel time by private car poses physical and mental risks. Individual-level obesity and diabetes, two of the main public health challenges in low- and middle-income contexts, could be associated to city-level travel times by car. We used individual obesity and diabetes data from national health surveys from individuals in 178 Latin American cities, compiled and harmonized by the SALURBAL project. We calculat…
At the intersection of place, race, and health in Brazil
Reprodutibilidade e validade relativa do Questionário de Frequência Alimentar do Elsa-Brasil
Avaliou-se a reprodutibilidade e a validade do Questionário de Frequência Alimentar (QFA) utilizado no Estudo Longitudinal de Saúde do Adulto (ELSA-Brasil). Foram aplicados três registros alimentares e um QFA em dois momentos no período de um ano (n = 281). Valores de energia e nutrientes dos registros alimentares foram deatenuados e Log transformados. Para avaliação da reprodutibilidade e validade foi aplicado o teste de correlação intraclasse (…
Consumption of ultra-processed foods and socioeconomic position
The objective of the study was to estimate the contribution of ultra-processed foods to total caloric intake and investigate whether it differs according to socioeconomic position. We analyzed baseline data from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil 2008-2010; N = 14.378) and data on dietary intake using a food frequency questionnaire, assigning it into three categories: unprocessed or minimally processed foods and process…
Eating patterns in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (Elsa-Brasil)
The food consumption of 15,071 public employees was analyzed in six Brazilian cities participating in the baseline for Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil, 2008-2010) with the aim of identifying eating patterns and their relationship to socio-demographic variables. Multiple correspondence and cluster analysis were applied. Four patterns were identified, with their respective frequencies: "traditional" (48%); "fruits and vege…
Dietary patterns of Brazilian adolescents
The objectives of this study were to identify dietary patterns in Brazilian adolescents, describe their distributions in Brazil's State capitals and Federal District, and analyze the correlations with the Municipal Human Development Index (HDI-M). The study analyzed a sample of 60,954 ninth-graders from public and private schools who participated in the National School-Based Health Survey (PeNSE) in 2009. Cluster analysis was used to characterize…
The community food environment of a Brazilian metropolis
This study aimed to describe the community food environment of a Brazilian metropolis using secondary data from 2015. To construct this database, the State and Municipal Secretariat were asked to provide information on 12 types of food sales establishment in the city of Belo Horizonte. Establishments that were not common between the two databases were checked using the Google Street View database. The final database consisted of establishments th…
Longitudinal changes in the retail food environment in Mexico and their association with diabetes
The retail food environment is a potential population-level determinant of diet and nutrition-related chronic diseases, yet little is known about its composition and association with diabetes in low- and middle-income countries. Our objectives were: (1) to describe changes in the composition of the retail food environment in Mexican neighborhoods from 2010 to 2016 and (2) to examine the association between these changes and diabetes cases diagnos…
Capital social no Elsa-Brasil
OBJETIVO: Estimar a confiabilidade teste-reteste dos itens do Resource Generator scale para avaliação de capital social no Estudo Longitudinal de Saúde do Adulto (ELSA-Brasil). MÉTODOS: A escala de capital social foi aplicada em subamostra de 281 participantes dos seis Centros de Investigação do ELSA, em duas oportunidades, com intervalo de sete a 14 dias. O instrumento é constituído por 31 itens que representam situações concretas para avaliar o…
Uso do método Grade of Membership na identificação de perfis de consumo e comportamento alimentar de adolescentes do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Com objetivo de identificar perfis de consumo e de comportamentos alimentares e descrever suas prevalências, aplicou-se o método Grade of Membership em dados de um inquérito sobre fatores de risco à saúde de adolescentes do ensino fundamental da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (N = 1.632). Foram gerados quatro perfis: perfil "A" (12,1%), caracterizado pelo consumo frequente de todos os alimentos marcadores de dieta saudável, menos frequente dos …
Aspectos metodológicos do estudo Comercialização de Alimentos em Escolas Brasileiras
Este artigo apresenta os aspectos metodológicos da concepção e organização do estudo Comercialização de Alimentos em Escolas Brasileiras, que teve como objetivo avaliar aspectos relacionados à comercialização de alimentos e bebidas em escolas privadas, a partir de informações coletadas com gestores de cantinas escolares e ambulantes presentes no entorno imediato das escolas. Trata-se de um estudo transversal em cantinas escolares e ambulantes no …
The influence of neighborhood safety and built environment on childhood obesity
This study aims to analyze the isolated and combined effect of objective measures concerning neighborhood safety, food, and physical activity environments on students' obesity. This is a cross-sectional study conducted with 9- and 10-year-old children enrolled in the municipal education network of a Brazilian metropolis. Environment objective measures comprised neighborhood unsafety (annual criminality and road traffic accident rates), availabili…
Neighborhood greenspace and cardiometabolic risk factors
A incorporação dos ambientes alimentares na Política Nacional de Alimentação e Nutrição
Web Data Mining
To overcome the challenge of obtaining accurate data on community food retail, we developed an innovative tool to automatically capture food retail data from Google Earth (GE). The proposed method is relevant to non-commercial use or scholarly purposes. We aimed to test the validity of web sources data for the assessment of community food retail environment by comparison to ground-truth observations (gold standard). A secondary aim was to test wh…
Covid-19 e ambiente alimentar digital no Brasil
Cohort study for monitoring cardiovascular risk factors in children using a primary health care service
An awareness of the presence of cardiovascular disease risk factors since childhood is essential to guide health promotion policies. The aim of this paper is to present, together with the main results, a methodological proposal to estimate both incidence and prevalence of these factors over time and their associated socio-demographic aspects in a population attending a primary health care unit, within Brazilian Unified National Health System. An …
Consumo e comportamento alimentar entre adolescentes brasileiros
O objetivo deste artigo é descrever características de consumo e comportamento alimentar de adolescentes brasileiros e sua associação com fatores sociodemográficos. Estudou-se, em 2009, amostra representativa de alunos do 9o ano do ensino fundamental de escolas públicas e privadas das 26 capitais brasileiras e do Distrito Federal. Utilizou-se questionário autoaplicável sobre atributos sociodemográficos, consumo e comportamento alimentar, entre ou…
Imagem corporal, estado nutricional e comportamento com relação ao peso entre adolescentes brasileiros
O objetivo deste artigo é descrever a concordância entre imagem corporal (IC) e estado nutricional (EN) e verificar a associação de IC e de EN com comportamentos relacionados ao peso corporal (CRPC) entre adolescentes brasileiros. Estudou-se, em 2009, amostra representativa de alunos do 9o ano do ensino fundamental de escolas públicas e privadas das 26 capitais brasileiras e do Distrito Federal. Utilizou-se questionário autoaplicável sobre IC, CR…
Individual and school environment factors associated with overweight in adolescents of the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Objective To identify the association of individual and school environment factors with overweight among adolescents. Design Cross-sectional study. Sociodemographic and behavioural information was collected using an anonymous self-administered questionnaire. Indicators on human and physical resources of the schools were based on information collected in interviews with school principals. Overweight was defined based on the BMI Z -score for age an…
Cohort study for monitoring cardiovascular risk factors in children using a primary health care service
An awareness of the presence of cardiovascular disease risk factors since childhood is essential to guide health promotion policies. The aim of this paper is to present, together with the main results, a methodological proposal to estimate both incidence and prevalence of these factors over time and their associated socio-demographic aspects in a population attending a primary health care unit, within Brazilian Unified National Health System. An …
Uso do método Grade of Membership na identificação de perfis de consumo e comportamento alimentar de adolescentes do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Com objetivo de identificar perfis de consumo e de comportamentos alimentares e descrever suas prevalências, aplicou-se o método Grade of Membership em dados de um inquérito sobre fatores de risco à saúde de adolescentes do ensino fundamental da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (N = 1.632). Foram gerados quatro perfis: perfil "A" (12,1%), caracterizado pelo consumo frequente de todos os alimentos marcadores de dieta saudável, menos frequente dos …
Capital social no Elsa-Brasil
OBJETIVO: Estimar a confiabilidade teste-reteste dos itens do Resource Generator scale para avaliação de capital social no Estudo Longitudinal de Saúde do Adulto (ELSA-Brasil). MÉTODOS: A escala de capital social foi aplicada em subamostra de 281 participantes dos seis Centros de Investigação do ELSA, em duas oportunidades, com intervalo de sete a 14 dias. O instrumento é constituído por 31 itens que representam situações concretas para avaliar o…
Reprodutibilidade e validade relativa do Questionário de Frequência Alimentar do Elsa-Brasil
Avaliou-se a reprodutibilidade e a validade do Questionário de Frequência Alimentar (QFA) utilizado no Estudo Longitudinal de Saúde do Adulto (ELSA-Brasil). Foram aplicados três registros alimentares e um QFA em dois momentos no período de um ano (n = 281). Valores de energia e nutrientes dos registros alimentares foram deatenuados e Log transformados. Para avaliação da reprodutibilidade e validade foi aplicado o teste de correlação intraclasse (…
Dietary patterns of Brazilian adolescents
The objectives of this study were to identify dietary patterns in Brazilian adolescents, describe their distributions in Brazil's State capitals and Federal District, and analyze the correlations with the Municipal Human Development Index (HDI-M). The study analyzed a sample of 60,954 ninth-graders from public and private schools who participated in the National School-Based Health Survey (PeNSE) in 2009. Cluster analysis was used to characterize…
Job strain and unhealthy lifestyle
Job strain, job control, and social support were associated with physical activity. Social support at work was protective of smoking. Our results are comparable to those found in more developed countries; they provide additional evidence of an association between an adverse psychosocial work environment and health-related behaviors
Eating patterns in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (Elsa-Brasil)
The food consumption of 15,071 public employees was analyzed in six Brazilian cities participating in the baseline for Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil, 2008-2010) with the aim of identifying eating patterns and their relationship to socio-demographic variables. Multiple correspondence and cluster analysis were applied. Four patterns were identified, with their respective frequencies: "traditional" (48%); "fruits and vege…
Using Gamma and Quantile Regressions to Explore the Association between Job Strain and Adiposity in the Elsa-Brasil Study
This paper explores the association between job strain and adiposity, using two statistical analysis approaches and considering the role of gender. The research evaluated 11,960 active baseline participants (2008-2010) in the ELSA-Brasil study. Job strain was evaluated through a demand-control questionnaire, while body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) were evaluated in continuous form. The associations were estimated using gamma regr…
Consumption of ultra-processed food and obesity
Objective To verify if the intake of ultra-processed foods is associated with higher BMI and waist circumference (WC) among participants of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) cohort. Design Cross-sectional analysis of the ELSA-Brasil baseline (2008–2010). Dietary information obtained through an FFQ was classified according to characteristics of food processing (NOVA) and used to estimate the percentage energy contribut…
Early-life nutritional status and metabolic syndrome
Objective In the present study we investigated gender-specific associations of low birth weight (LBW) and shorter relative leg length with metabolic syndrome (MetS) after adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics and health-related behaviours. We also investigated whether these associations are independent of age at menarche and BMI at 20 years old. Design Cross-sectional analysis. Subjects Baseline data from 12 602 participants (35–74 years…
Predicting cardiometabolic disturbances from waist-to-height ratio
Objective To evaluate the performance of waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) in predicting cardiometabolic outcomes and compare cut-off points for Brazilian adults. Design Cross-sectional study. WHtR areas under the curve (AUC) were compared with those for BMI, waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR). The outcomes of interest were hypertension, diabetes, hypertriacylglycerolaemia and presence of at least two components of metabolic syndrom…
Generational differences in dietary pattern among Brazilian adults born between 1934 and 1975
Objective To identify generational differences in the dietary patterns of Brazilian adults born between 1934 and 1975. Design A cross-sectional study from the baseline of the multicentre Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) cohort. Year of birth was categorized into three birth generations: Traditionalists (born between 1934 and 1945); Baby Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964); and Generation X (born between 1965 and 1975). …
Consumption of ultra-processed foods and socioeconomic position
The objective of the study was to estimate the contribution of ultra-processed foods to total caloric intake and investigate whether it differs according to socioeconomic position. We analyzed baseline data from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil 2008-2010; N = 14.378) and data on dietary intake using a food frequency questionnaire, assigning it into three categories: unprocessed or minimally processed foods and process…
At the intersection of place, race, and health in Brazil
Influence of internal migration on body mass index
These findings highlight the role of environmental factors on nutritional status, noting that the effects on BMI may be positive or negative, depending on the trajectory of displacements between origin and destination
The food environment in Latin America
Objective: Food environments may be contributing to the rapid increase in obesity occurring in most Latin American (LA) countries. The present study reviews literature from LA that (i) describes the food environment and policies targeting the food environment (FEP); and (ii) analytic studies that investigate associations between the FEP and dietary behaviours, overweight/obesity and obesity related chronic diseases. We focus on six dimensions of …
Is neighbourhood social deprivation in a Brazilian city associated with the availability, variety, quality and price of food in supermarkets
Objective: To verify differences in the availability, variety, quality and price of unprocessed and ultra-processed foods in supermarkets and similar establishments in neighbourhoods with different social deprivation levels at Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: The Obesogenic Environment Study in São Paulo’s Food Store Observation Tool (ESAO-S) was applied in thirty-three supermarket chains, wholesale and …
Covid-19 Confinement and Changes of Adolescent’s Dietary Trends in Italy, Spain, Chile, Colombia and Brazil
Confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic can influence dietary profiles, especially those of adolescents, who are highly susceptible to acquiring bad eating habits. Adolescents’ poor dietary habits increase their subsequent risk of degenerative diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular pathologies, etc. Our aim was to study nutritional modifications during COVID-19 confinement in adolescents aged 10 to 19 years, compare them with their u…
Factors Associated with Body Size Perception and Body Image (Dis)Satisfaction in the Elderly
The study aimed to assess the association between body image perception and (dis)satisfaction and sociodemographic and behavioral factors in the elderly, using multinomial logistic regression. Data were analyzed for 1686 women and 1499 men participating in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil). Men with less schooling and women with lower per capita income showed higher odds of underestimating their body size. Former smok…
Longitudinal changes in the retail food environment in Mexico and their association with diabetes
The retail food environment is a potential population-level determinant of diet and nutrition-related chronic diseases, yet little is known about its composition and association with diabetes in low- and middle-income countries. Our objectives were: (1) to describe changes in the composition of the retail food environment in Mexican neighborhoods from 2010 to 2016 and (2) to examine the association between these changes and diabetes cases diagnos…
Web Data Mining
To overcome the challenge of obtaining accurate data on community food retail, we developed an innovative tool to automatically capture food retail data from Google Earth (GE). The proposed method is relevant to non-commercial use or scholarly purposes. We aimed to test the validity of web sources data for the assessment of community food retail environment by comparison to ground-truth observations (gold standard). A secondary aim was to test wh…
Covid-19 e ambiente alimentar digital no Brasil
Medicine (45 works) · Environmental health (31 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (31 works) · Demography (30 works) · Geography (23 works) · Gerontology (20 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Demography (18 works) · Population (18 works) · Nutritional Studies and Diet (15 works)