Ultra-processed food consumption and nutritional status in Uruguayan and Brazilian children between three to five years

Autor: Isabel Pereyra-González, Romina Buffarini, Andrea Gomez, Simone Farías-Antúnez, Andrea Mary Fletcher, Lucía Gómez Garbero, Augusto Ferreira Umpiérrez, Marlos Rodrigues Domingues, Mariângela Freitas da Silveira
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición, Vol 73, Iss Supl. 2, Pp 47-57 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0004-0622
2309-5806
DOI: 10.37527/2023.73.S2.006
Popis: Introduction. There is growing consensus globally that the consumption of ultra- processed food (UPF) can negatively affect the nutritional status of children. Objective. The present study aims to evaluate associations between the consumption of UPF and the nutritional status in a sample of Uruguayan and Brazilian preschoolers belonging to two studies: the ENDIS Study and the Pelotas 2015 Birth Cohort. Materials and methods. We conducted a cross-sectional analysis. The main outcome measure was obesity defined as BMI for age and sex ≥ +3 z-scores. The score of UPF consumption was the main exposure measured. Each positive answer of habitual intake was added up to create a UPF score ranging from zero to six or more UPF. Crude and adjusted logistic regressions were performed for the associations between UPF consumption and nutritional status in preschoolers. Results. The final sample consisted of 8,687 preschool children, 50.8% belonging to the Uruguayan study, while the remaining 49.2% belonged to the Brazilian study. Nearly 5% of the sample of young children were obese. We didn’t observe a relationship between the score of UPF consumption and obesity, the odds ratio (OR) was 1.04 (95% CI, 1.00–1.09). Adjustments resulted in modest attenuation of the relationship and a lack of statistical significance. However, in children under 48 months, the score of UPF consumption was directly associated with childhood obesity. Conclusions. Results suggest that higher consumption of UPF is associated with obesity in Uruguayan and Brazilian preschool children under 4 years of age. These findings suggest that actions to reduce ultra- processed food consumption could lead to diminish obesity patterns and bring important public health benefits.
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