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Individual and environmental factors associated for overweight in urban populat...
Mendes, Larissa L.; Nogueira, Helena; Padez, C.; Ferrão, Maria; Velasquez-Melendez, GustavoBackground: Obesity is a significant global public health problem and the main cause of many chronic diseases in both developed and developing countries. The increase in obesity in different populations worldwide cannot be explained solely by metabolic and genetic factors; environmental and social factors also have a strong association with obesity. Thus, it is believed that the current obesity epidemic is the ...
Socio-Demographic and Behavioral Risk Factors Associated with the High Prevalen...
Bingham, Daniel D.; Varela-Silva, Maria I.; Ferrão, Maria M.; Gama, Augusta; Mourão, Maria I.; Nogueira, Helena; Marques, Vitor R.; Padez, C.Objectives: Childhood obesity is a public health concern in Portugal. Socio-demographic and behavioral factors are highly associated with obesity but are not clearly understood. This article aims to update the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Portuguese children and to explore the influence and risks of socio-demographic factors and behavioral factors.factors and behavioral factors. Methods: A cross-sect...
Built environment and social environment: associations with overweight and obes...
Velásquez-Meléndez, Gustavo; Mendes, Larissa Loures; Padez, C.The aim of this study was to assess associations between the built environment and social environment and excess weight in an urban population. Participants were selected from the Surveillance System for Risk Factors for Chronic Diseases (VIGITEL). The study used data from the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. A total of 3,425 interviews from the years 2008 and 2009 were used. Georeferenced da...
Estabelecimento de recomendações de ingestão hídrica para os portugueses
Padrão, Patríca; Teixeira, P.J.; Padez, C.; Medina, J.L.O Instituto Hidratação e Saúde (IHS) apresenta neste documento as primeiras recomendações de ingestão hídrica para os portugueses, estabelecidas a partir dos valores de referência publicados em 2010 pela European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) que foram definidos em função das ingestões de água observadas em vários grupos populacionais na Europa, dos valores desejáveis de osmolaridade urinária, bem como da quanti...
Secular trends in age at menarche among Caboclo populations from Pará, Amazonia...
Silva, H. P.; Padez, C.The present study is part of a large research project on growth, development, nutrition, and health of Caboclo populations from the Brazilian Amazon. The aim of this paper is to analyze the age of menarche in adolescents (N = 164) and adult women (219) in the studied populations. Caboclo are admixed rural, peasant groups that live along the Amazon river and its tributaries, and there are few previous studies ab...
Prevalence of overweight and obesity in 7-9-year-old Portuguese children: Trend...
Padez, C.; Fernandes, T.; Mourão, I.; Moreira, P.; Rosado, V.The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Portuguese children age 7-9 years and to analyze trends in body mass index (BMI) from 1970-2002. Data were collected from October 2002 to June 2003 in a random sample of Portuguese children. Height and weight were measured and BMI (Kg/m2) was calculated. The International Obesity TaskForce (IOTF) cutoffs to define overweight and obe...
Dietary calcium and body mass in Portuguese children
Moreira, P.; Fernandes, Teresa; Mourão, I.; Padez, C.; Rosado, V.Many epidemiologic studies have identified strong inverse correlations between adiposity and calcium intake, and dietary calcium is now well recognised to play an important role in the prevention and treatment of obesity. The objective of our study was to assess nutritional intake in school children (7 to 9 years old) and relate calcium intake to body mass index (BMI).
Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in 7-9 Year-Old portuguese Children: Trend...
Padez, C.; Fernandes, Teresa; Mourão, I.; Moreira, P.; Rosado, V.OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to analyse changes in the prevalence of overweight and obesity between 1986 and 2000 in Portuguese conscripts, and to examine the role of place of residence and educational level. STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. METHODS: Data sets from the cross-sectional annual surveys of all 18-year-old Portuguese males born between 1966 and 1981 and examined between 1986 and 2000 (85...
Social background and age at menarche in Portuguese university students: A note...
Padez, C.Menarcheal age of a sample of Portuguese university students (n = 3,366), born between 1972 and 1983, age 18-23 years, was analyzed. The influence of parents' educational level and occupation, family size, birth order, and degree of urbanization of girl's locality of residence during childhood and adolescence were analyzed as well as secular trend in the Portuguese population. Mean age at menarche for girls bor...
Age at menarche in Coimbra (Portugal) school girls : a note on the secular changes
Padez, C.; Rocha, M. A.The age at menarche and several menstrual symptoms were reported by 516 Portuguese school girls who took part in a cross-sectional anthropometric study in Coimbra, Portugal. The mean ages of menarche calculated using the recall method and also using probit analysis were 12.53 1.27 and 12.03 1.26 years, respectively. Parents’ educational level, place of residence and size of the family did not have any significa...
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