Objective: Investigate the prevalence and factors associated with increased consumption of ultra-processed foods among university students enrolled in public and private higher education institutions in the Brazilian urban center. Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional study, with a sample of university students. Methods were used to address sociodemographic data, behavioral habits, anthropometric pro...
Introduction: Obesity is recognized as a multifactorial disease of an epidemic nature and a worldwide health problem. The estimation of body fat in patients with different morbidities has been the subject of studies for decades. Quantitative measures such as the Body Fat Index (IAC) can help with the quantification of body fat. Objective: To analyze the prevalence of ACI by relating it to sociodemographic, clin...
Objective: To analyze the health-related habits of community health agents (CHA). Methods: Cross-sectional study in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2018. Anthropometric, sociodemographic, labor and lifestyle characteristics were evaluated. Poisson regression was applied to calculate the prevalence ratio (PR) (and 95% confidence interval [95%CI]) of unhealthy habits by independent variables. Results: 675 CH...
Objective: To compare the nutritional status of people with type II diabetes mellitus pre- and post-intervention health education. Methods: This is a longitudinal, prospective, interventional, and uncontrolled, before-and-after study. The data were collected from a questionnaire that dealt with socio-demographic aspects (age, gender, marital status and skin color), economic (family income and schooling), for an...
Introduction: Self-perception about body image is the result of several elements that are modified by society during the life of each person. Physical Education scholars are influenced by these changes due to the approximation of this area to the heath transformation vehicle and attempts to reach the current beauty standard. Objective: To evaluate the perception of the Physical Education course students regardi...
Objective: to analyze the association of overweight with socio-demographic variables, health conditions and lifestyle indicators of technical collaborators of a private higher education institution. Materials and methods: Cross-sectional, analytical study carried out in a private institution in the north of Minas Gerais. We adopted a random probabilistic sample of 101 technical collaborators. Data collection wa...
Objetivo: Avaliar o estado nutricional de homens diagnosticados com diabetes mellitus tipo II atendidos na Atenção Primária à Saúde. Materiais e Métodos: Trata-se de um estudo descritivo de corte transversal, apresentando caráter quantitativo, realizado com 46 homens diagnosticados com diabetes mellitus II atendidos na Atenção Primária à Saúde. Os dados foram coletados utilizando um questionário qu...
Introdução: Climatério refere-se a uma fase na vida da mulher que acontece de forma natural. Neste perÃodo, pode ocorrer impacto nas funções biológicas, endócrinas que acarretam em maior suscetibilidade a comorbidades, destacando-se a concentração de adiposidade abdominal. Objetivo: identificar a relação da adiposidade abdominal com fatores os clÃnicos em mulheres climatéricas assistidas nas Estra...
Objetivos: A presente dissertação procurou analisar o efeito isolado e interativo de um programa de exercício de step/musculação/flexibilidade com a natureza da menopausa e com a terapia hormonal na composição corporal e na taxa metabólica basal de mulheres pós-menopáusicas. Métodos: Cento e sessenta e nove mulheres (56,80 ± 6,47 anos) foram selecionadas de forma randomizada para os grupos de exercício (GE, n =...