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The relationship between height and fruit/vegetable intakes in adults: a nation...
Rosário, Rafaela; Agostinis-Sobrinho, Cesar; Padrão, Patrícia; Lopes, Oscar; Moreira, PedroBackground: Worldwide, fruit and vegetable intake is below recommendations. There is increasing evidence to suggest an association between height and diet. Aim: to analyse the associations of fruit and vegetable intake with attained height in Portuguese adults. Methods: A representative sample of 17 480 Portuguese adults (56.7% women) participated in this cross-sectional study. The survey comprised sociodemogra...
Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass i...
Iurilli, Maria L. C.; Zhou, Bin; Bennett, James E.; Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M.; Sophiea, Marisa K.; Rodriguez-Martinez, Andrea; Bixby, HonorMade available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:30:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-03-01; From 1985 to 2016, the prevalence of underweight decreased, and that of obesity and severe obesity increased, in most regions, with significant variation in the magnitude of these changes across regions. We investigated how much change in mean body mass index (BMI) explains changes in the prevalence of ...
Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass i...
Iurilli, Maria L. C.; Zhou, Bin; Bennett, James E.; Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M.; Sophiea, Marisa K.; Rodriguez-Martinez, Andrea; Bixby, HonorMade available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T15:08:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-03-09; Wellcome Trust; From 1985 to 2016, the prevalence of underweight decreased, and that of obesity and severe obesity increased, in most regions, with significant variation in the magnitude of these changes across regions. We investigated how much change in mean body mass index (BMI) explains changes in th...
Body mass index categories and attained height in Portuguese adults
Rosário, Rafaela; Barros, Renata; Padrao, Patricia; Santos, Rute; Teixeira, Vitor Hugo; Lopes, Oscar; Andrade, Nelson; Moreira, Andre; Moreira, PedroObjective: To analyze the associations between height and BMI categories in a Portuguese representative sample. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with a representative sample of 32,644 Portuguese adults (52.4% females). Sociodemographic and lifestyle characteristics were obtained along with self-reported height and weight. We performed generalized linear models to assess the differences in attained heigh...
Health promotion intervention to improve diet quality in children: a randomized...
Rosário, Rafaela; Araújo, Ana; Padrão, Patrícia; Lopes, Oscar; Moreira, André; Pereira, Beatriz Oliveira; Moreira, PedroObjective 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 the c...
Changes in childhood obesity prevalence following a school based intervention f...
Rosário, Rafaela; Araújo, Ana; Lopes, Oscar; Moreira, André; Oliveira, Bruno; Padrão, Patrícia; Teixeira, Vitor Hugo; Barros, Renata; Pereira, Beatriz[abstract]