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Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: A pooled analysi...

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: We used data from 3663 population-based studies with 222 million participants that...

COVID-19 Management in Clinical Dental Care Part II: Personal Protective Equipm...

Background: Facing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) challenge on a global level, dental care professionals are encouraged to optimize universal precautions and adopt measures that ensure protection against infection by contaminated aerosols and droplets. Although aerosol transmission is possible, direct contact through large droplets is probably responsible for the vast majority of transmissions. Methods...

Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents...

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 colla...

Body Mass Index Categories and Attained Height in Portuguese Adults

Detection of Fusobacterium spp in colorectal tissue samples using reverse trans...

An unhealthy microbiome is intimately correlated with several disease states, including colorectal cancer, wherein bacteria might be the key to neoplastic initiation and progression. Recent studies revealed an enrichment of Fusobacterium in colorectal tumor tissues relative to surrounding normal mucosa. Given the available evidence, we conducted an exploratory study quantifying the relative expression of Fusoba...

Health Promotion Intervention to Improve Diet Quality in Children: A Randomized...

Objective. This study aims to evaluate the impact of an intervention program, taught by trained teachers, on foods and nutrients components of the Diet Quality Index-International among children in Grades 1 to 4. Method. A total of 464 children (239 female, 6-12 years) from seven elementary Portuguese schools participated in this randomized trial. Three schools were allocated to the intervention, and four to th...

Biomarkers of Thermal Adaptation: New Tools in Sustainable Livestock Production...

Climate changes have been identified as one of the greatest environmental, social and economic threats to the planet and humanity. The increase of extreme weather events, such as prolonged droughts, extreme ambient temperatures or periods with high and intensive precipitation has effects on animal production systems. Crops, and consequently forage productivity and availability are compromised, the risk of new d...

The Use of Electrophoresis for the Study of Saliva Involvement in Ingestive Beh...

Whole saliva contains a wide variety of proteins with diverse functions, namely proteins which participate in teeth and oral tissues protection, as well as proteins related to ingestive and digestive processes. Several studies, in animals and humans, present evidences that saliva is involved in ingestive behavior. The link between saliva composition and oral perception is increasingly reported. Several studies ...

Variations in salivary function in a rodent model of pre-diabetes.

Diabetes is a widespread disease representing an enormous part of the total health costs. An early diagnostic could be of extremely importance both for the understanding and prevention of this pathology. Saliva is a fluid with increasing interest as a source of biomarkers for disease diagnostic and saliva protein composition changes have already been reported for diabetic individuals. However, the studies were ...

The impact of an intervention taught by trained teachers on childhood fruit and...

Our study aimed to assess the impact of a six-months nutrition program, taught by trained teachers, on fruit and vegetable consumption among children in grades 1 to 4. Four hundred and sixty-four children (239 female), 6 to 12 years old, from seven elementary schools were assigned to this randomized trial. Teachers were trained by researchers over six months, according to the following topics: nutrition, health...