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Dietary changes in the NutriNet Brasil cohort during the covid-19 pandemic

OBJECTIVE: To describe the dietary characteristics of participants in the NutriNet Brasil cohort immediately before and during the covid-19 pandemic. METHODS: Our data stem from an adult cohort created to prospectively investigate the relationship between diet and morbidity and mortality from chroni...

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Autores principales: Steele, Eurídice Martínez, Rauber, Fernanda, Costa, Caroline dos Santos, Leite, Maria Alvim, Gabe, Kamila Tiemann, Louzada, Maria Laura da Costa, Levy, Renata Bertazzi, Monteiro, Carlos Augusto
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Publicado: Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7454165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32901755
http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/s1518-8787.2020054002950
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author Steele, Eurídice Martínez
Rauber, Fernanda
Costa, Caroline dos Santos
Leite, Maria Alvim
Gabe, Kamila Tiemann
Louzada, Maria Laura da Costa
Levy, Renata Bertazzi
Monteiro, Carlos Augusto
author_facet Steele, Eurídice Martínez
Rauber, Fernanda
Costa, Caroline dos Santos
Leite, Maria Alvim
Gabe, Kamila Tiemann
Louzada, Maria Laura da Costa
Levy, Renata Bertazzi
Monteiro, Carlos Augusto
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description OBJECTIVE: To describe the dietary characteristics of participants in the NutriNet Brasil cohort immediately before and during the covid-19 pandemic. METHODS: Our data stem from an adult cohort created to prospectively investigate the relationship between diet and morbidity and mortality from chronic non-communicable diseases in Brazil. For this study, we selected the first participants (n = 10,116) who answered twice to a simplified questionnaire on their diet the day before, the first time when entering the study, between January 26 and February 15, 2020, and the second between May 10 and 19, 2020. The questionnaire inquiries about the consumption of healthy (vegetables, fruits and legumes) and unhealthy (ultra-processed foods) eating markers. Comparisons of indicators based on the consumption of these markers before and during the pandemic are presented for the study population and according to gender, age group, macro-region of residence and schooling. Chi-square tests and t-tests were used to compare proportions and means, respectively, adopting p < 0.05 to identify significant differences. RESULTS: For all participants, we found a modest but statistically significant increase in the consumption of healthy eating markers and stability in the consumption of unhealthy food markers. This favorable pattern of dietary changes during the pandemic occurred in most sociodemographic strata. We observed a less favorable changing pattern, with a tendency to increasing consumption of healthy and unhealthy food markers, in the Northeast and North macro-regions and among people with less schooling, suggesting social inequalities in the response to the pandemic. CONCLUSIONS: If confirmed, the trend of increased consumption of ultra-processed foods in underdeveloped regions and by people with less schooling is concerning, as eating these foods increases the risk of obesity, hypertension and diabetes, whose presence increases the severity and lethality of covid-19.
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spelling pubmed-74541652020-09-04 Dietary changes in the NutriNet Brasil cohort during the covid-19 pandemic Steele, Eurídice Martínez Rauber, Fernanda Costa, Caroline dos Santos Leite, Maria Alvim Gabe, Kamila Tiemann Louzada, Maria Laura da Costa Levy, Renata Bertazzi Monteiro, Carlos Augusto Rev Saude Publica Original Article OBJECTIVE: To describe the dietary characteristics of participants in the NutriNet Brasil cohort immediately before and during the covid-19 pandemic. METHODS: Our data stem from an adult cohort created to prospectively investigate the relationship between diet and morbidity and mortality from chronic non-communicable diseases in Brazil. For this study, we selected the first participants (n = 10,116) who answered twice to a simplified questionnaire on their diet the day before, the first time when entering the study, between January 26 and February 15, 2020, and the second between May 10 and 19, 2020. The questionnaire inquiries about the consumption of healthy (vegetables, fruits and legumes) and unhealthy (ultra-processed foods) eating markers. Comparisons of indicators based on the consumption of these markers before and during the pandemic are presented for the study population and according to gender, age group, macro-region of residence and schooling. Chi-square tests and t-tests were used to compare proportions and means, respectively, adopting p < 0.05 to identify significant differences. RESULTS: For all participants, we found a modest but statistically significant increase in the consumption of healthy eating markers and stability in the consumption of unhealthy food markers. This favorable pattern of dietary changes during the pandemic occurred in most sociodemographic strata. We observed a less favorable changing pattern, with a tendency to increasing consumption of healthy and unhealthy food markers, in the Northeast and North macro-regions and among people with less schooling, suggesting social inequalities in the response to the pandemic. CONCLUSIONS: If confirmed, the trend of increased consumption of ultra-processed foods in underdeveloped regions and by people with less schooling is concerning, as eating these foods increases the risk of obesity, hypertension and diabetes, whose presence increases the severity and lethality of covid-19. Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo 2020-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7454165/ /pubmed/32901755 http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/s1518-8787.2020054002950 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Steele, Eurídice Martínez
Rauber, Fernanda
Costa, Caroline dos Santos
Leite, Maria Alvim
Gabe, Kamila Tiemann
Louzada, Maria Laura da Costa
Levy, Renata Bertazzi
Monteiro, Carlos Augusto
Dietary changes in the NutriNet Brasil cohort during the covid-19 pandemic
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title_full_unstemmed Dietary changes in the NutriNet Brasil cohort during the covid-19 pandemic
title_short Dietary changes in the NutriNet Brasil cohort during the covid-19 pandemic
title_sort dietary changes in the nutrinet brasil cohort during the covid-19 pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7454165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32901755
http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/s1518-8787.2020054002950
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