Helen Gonçalves

Biographic Data

ID3667243
NAMEHelen Gonçalves
GIVEN NAMESHelen
FAMILY NAMEGonçalves
SIGNATUREGONÇALVES H
AFFILIATIONSUniversidade Federal de Pelotas
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS180
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX8

  • Growing up otherwise

    Open AccessDominque P Behague, Helen Gonçalves et al.ARTICLEEthos2026

    This paper proposes a reframing of how young men become embroiled—or not—in the systemic violence that infuses their daily lives. Most frameworks in health and social policy tend to approach violence as rooted in psycho‐developmental problems and/or social and structural determinants. These approaches can underemphasize the relational specificities and institutional dynamics through which violence is reproduced and might otherwise be interrupted.…

  • Occurrence of metabolic syndrome in young adults and inequalities according to sex, skin color, and socioeconomic status

    Open AccessAna Paula Oliveira Rosses, Gabriela Ávila Marques et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2026

    The aim of the present study was to identify the prevalence of metabolic syndrome at 22 and 30 years of age, determine inequalities by sex, skin color, and socioeconomic status, and investigate the intersections of these variables. A cross-sectional analysis was conducted using data from the 1993 (22 years of age) and 1982 (22 and 30 years of age) Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort. Metabolic syndrome was defined based on the criteria of the National …

  • Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022

    Open AccessNowell H Phelps, Rosie Singleton et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…

  • Women’s health and well-being in five birth cohorts from low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessFernando Pires Hartwig, Anushka Ataullahjan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2024

    Background: Women's health and well-being (WHW) have been receiving growing attention, but limited progress has been made on how to measure its different domains in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We used data from five long-term birth cohorts in Brazil, Guatemala, the Philippines and South Africa to explore different domains of adult WHW, and how these domains relate to early life exposures. Methods: Based upon an a priori conceptualis…

  • The Joint Associations of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors on Adiposity during Adolescence

    Open AccessSoyang Kwon, Fernando César Wehrmeister et al.ARTICLEChildren2023

    A prior study conducted in high-income countries demonstrated that specific sedentary behavior, such as TV viewing, is prospectively associated with adiposity in both active and inactive adolescents. The aim of this study was to examine the joint associations of sedentary behaviors and moderate- and vigorous-intensity physical activity (MVPA) with adiposity among Brazilian adolescents. This prospective cohort study included 377 participants of th…

  • Life history trade-offs associated with exposure to low maternal capital are different in sons compared to daughters

    Open AccessJ Wells, Jonathan C K Wells et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Background: Environmental exposures in early life explain variability in many physiological and behavioural traits in adulthood. Recently, we showed that exposure to a composite marker of low maternal capital explained the clustering of adverse behavioural and physical traits in adult daughters in a Brazilian birth cohort. These associations were strongly mediated by whether or not the daughter had reproduced by the age of 18 years. Using evoluti…

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019

    Open AccessBin Zhou, Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2021

    BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHODS: We used data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30-79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of blood pressure and data on blo…

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories

    Open AccessAndrea Rodriguez-Martinez, Andrea Rodriguez‐Martinez et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

    BACKGROUND: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. METHODS: For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collated by the Non-Communicable Disease …

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Open AccessNCD Risk Factor Collaboration, Honor Bixby et al.ARTICLENature2019

    Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean B…

  • Impact of stressful life events on central adiposity in the Pelotas Birth Cohort

    Open AccessPamela J Surkan, Kwame S Sakyi et al.ARTICLERevista de Saúde Pública2018

    OBJECTIVE: To investigate how stressful life events and social support relate to central adiposity in Southern Brazil. METHODS: Data included information from 802 participants in the 1982 Pelotas Birth Cohort that was collect in 2004–2005 and 2006. Stratifying by sex, we studied self-reported stressful life events during the year before 2004–2005 in relation to change in waist circumference between 2004–2005 and 2006 and waist-to-hip ratio in 200…

  • Health problems and the rural area

    Open AccessEuclides Ayres De Castilho, Helen Denise Gonçalves Da Silva et al.ARTICLERevista de Saúde Pública2018

    A sociedade brasileira, tal como vem ocorrendo em diferentes conjunturas, e submetida a transformacoes intensas e de extrema rapidez na sua estrutura demografica, especialmente no processo de inversao da distribuicao urbano-rural de sua populacao. Nos ultimos levantamentos , observa-se que somente 15% da populacao brasileira vive em zona rural, invertendo a antiga disposicao existente e [...]

  • Depressive symptomatology among residents of the rural area of a city in Southern Brazil

    Open AccessRoberta Hirschmann, Ana Paula Gomes et al.ARTICLERevista de Saúde Pública2018

    OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the prevalence and demographic, socioeconomic, behavioral and health factors associated with depressive symptomatology in rural residents. METHODS: This is a population-based, cross-sectional study with a representative sample of 1,453 residents aged 18 years or over of the rural area of the city of Pelotas, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. We used the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale to evaluate depressive symptomat…

  • Breastfeeding and behavior disorders among children and adolescents

    Open AccessWanêssa Lacerda Poton, Ana Luiza Gonçalves Soares et al.ARTICLERevista de Saúde Pública2018

    OBJECTIVE: This systematic review study aimed to assess the evidence available for the association between breastfeeding and behavior disorders in childhood and adolescence. METHODS: The search was carried out in the PubMed, Lilacs, and PsycINFO databases up to December 2016. Inclusion criteria were as follows: prospective, retrospective and cross-sectional studies assessing the association between breastfeeding and behavior disorders in childhoo…

  • Problemas de comportamento internalizantes e externalizantes e uso de substâncias na adolescência

    Open AccessWanêssa Lacerda Poton, Ana Luiza Gonçalves Soares et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2018References: 26

    Este estudo investigou a relação entre problemas de comportamento externalizantes (PCE), internalizantes (PCI) e desses concomitantemente (PCEI) no início da adolescência (11 anos) e o consumo de substâncias (bebidas alcoólicas, tabaco e drogas ilícitas) aos 15 anos, utilizando dados da coorte de nascimentos de Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, de 1993. Os problemas de comportamento foram avaliados pelo Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire …

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015

    Open AccessBin Zhou, James Bentham et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

    BACKGROUND: Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher. METHODS: For this analysis, we pooled national, subnational, or comm…

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016

    Open AccessLeandra Abarca-Gómez, Ziad Abdeen et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

    BACKGROUND: Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. METHODS: We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height…

  • Built environment and physical activity

    Open AccessInácio Crochemore-Silva, Inácio Crochemore Mohnsam Da Silva et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    Beachfront, street lighting, paved streets and cycle lanes were associated with physical activity patterns. This suggests that infrastructure interventions may influence physical activity levels of Brazilian adolescents

  • Cobertura por plano de saúde ou cartão de desconto

    Open AccessLeonardo Ferreira Fontenelle, Maria Beatriz Junqueira De Camargo et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2017Cited by: 3References: 21

    Este estudo foi desenhado para avaliar a cobertura por plano de saúde e seus motivos em uma população coberta pela Estratégia Saúde da Família. Nesta análise, descrevemos a cobertura por plano de saúde, total e por tipos, e analisamos sua associação com características de saúde e sociodemográficas. Entre os 31,3% (IC95%: 23,8-39,9) de pessoas que relatavam cobertura por "plano de saúde", 57,0% (IC95%: 45,2-68,0) estavam cobertos por cartões de de…

  • Adverse childhood experiences and consumption of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs among adolescents of a Brazilian birth cohort

    Open AccessHelen Denise Gonçalves Da Silva, Helen Gonçalves et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2016Cited by: 1References: 31

    The objective of this study was to investigate the association between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and the use of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs among adolescents from a Brazilian cohort. The occurrence of five ACEs, the use of alcohol and tobacco and trying illicit drugs were investigated in the 1993 Pelotas birth cohort at the age of 15 (n = 4,230). A score was created for the ACEs and their association with the use of substances w…

  • Tendências e desigualdades nos comportamentos de risco em adolescentes

    Open AccessLeidy Johanna Ocampo Arroyave, Maria Clara Restrepo-Méndez et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2016References: 7

    O objetivo do presente trabalho é descrever tendências e desigualdades nos comportamentos de risco à saúde em adolescentes. Estudo transversal, comparando duas coortes de nascimentos da cidade de Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Foram incluídos 1.281 adolescentes da coorte de 1982 e 4.106 da coorte de 1993 acompanhados em 2001 e 2011, respectivamente. Foi avaliado o consumo de álcool, uso de drogas ilícitas, uso de tabaco, iniciação sexual < 1…

  • Vitimização por crime na infância e adolescência segundo registros oficiais

    Open AccessErika Alejandra Giraldo Gallo, Ana Maria Baptista Menezes et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2016References: 26

    Descrição dos diferentes tipos de vitimização registrados oficialmente para as 5.249 crianças da coorte de nascimento da cidade de Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Dados oficiais foram obtidos na Secretaria de Segurança Pública e no Juizado da Infância e Juventude. A vitimização ocorreu em 1.150 membros, com 1.396 ocorrências registradas até 31 de dezembro de 2012. A taxa de incidência da vitimização total foi 15,7 por 1.000 pessoas/ano, sendo…

  • Association between breastfeeding and intelligence, educational attainment, and income at 30 years of age

    Open AccessCesar G Victora, Bernardo L Horta et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Global Health2015

    BACKGROUND: Breastfeeding has clear short-term benefits, but its long-term consequences on human capital are yet to be established. We aimed to assess whether breastfeeding duration was associated with intelligence quotient (IQ), years of schooling, and income at the age of 30 years, in a setting where no strong social patterning of breastfeeding exists. METHODS: A prospective, population-based birth cohort study of neonates was launched in 1982 …

  • Tracking of physical activity during adolescence

    Open AccessMario Renato Azevedo, Ana Maria Baptista Menezes et al.ARTICLERevista de Saúde Pública2014Cited by: 1References: 17

    OBJECTIVE To analyze physical activity during adolescence in participants of the 1993 Pelotas Birth Cohort Study, Brazil. METHODS Data on leisure time physical activity at 11, 15, and 18 years of age were analyzed. At each visit, a cut-off point of 300 min/week was used to classify adolescents as active or inactive. A total of 3,736 participants provided data on physical activity at each of the three age points. RESULTS A significant decline in t…

  • Pesquisando na interface

    Open AccessHelen Denise Gonçalves Da Silva, Helen Gonçalves et al.ARTICLEInterface - Comunicação Saúde…2014Cited by: 1References: 4

    Há crescente interesse e emprego de procedimentos metodológicos característicos da pesquisa qualitativa por diversas áreas do conhecimento que tradicionalmente não eram comuns. Na área da saúde, é reconhecida a importância da pesquisa qualitativa para a compreensão dos processos saúde-doença. Sua credibilidade tem sido questionada em vários âmbitos e relacionada a usos negligentes da abordagem qualitativa, como reduzir a relevância teórico-metodo…

  • Descrição metodológica do uso de acelerometria para mensurar a prática de atividade física nas coortes de nascimentos de Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, 1993 e 2004

    Open AccessAlan G Knuth, Maria Cecília Formoso Assunção et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2013Cited by: 1References: 16

    O objetivo deste trabalho é caracterizar a metodologia de coleta de atividade física por meio de acelerometria nas coortes de nascidos em 2004 e 1993 em Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, nos acompanhamentos dos 6-7 e 18 anos, respectivamente. Ao visitarem a sede para um amplo estudo de saúde, esses indivíduos receberam o acelerômetro e a posterior busca foi realizada no domicílio por meio de motociclistas da equipe de pesquisa. Os modelos utili…