This study investigated the association of dietary patterns with sociodemographic markers and components of metabolic syndrome in free-living adults. A descriptive, cross-sectional study was done with a sample of 237 ...

Climate teleconnections show remote and large-scale relationships between distant points on Earth. Their relations to precipitation are important to monitor and anticipate the anomalies that they can produce in the local ...

BACKGROUND: Although diet has been extensively studied in relation to individual chronic conditions, studies linking diet with multiple chronic conditions (multimorbidity) remained scarce. We aimed to undertake a comprehensive ...

Abstract: Performance of most pattern classifiers is improved when redundant or irrelevant features are removed. Nevertheless, this is mainly achieved by highly demanding computational methods or successive classifiers’ ...

Objective: To identify food acquisition patterns in Brazil and relate them to the sociodemographic characteristics of the household. Design: A cross-sectional national Household Budget Survey (HBS). Principal component ...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate food consumption during pregnancy by determining dietary patterns, associations with maternal characteristics, and possible changes in adherence to patterns throughout ...

This Master's thesis in Public Health, entitled "Eating patterns of climacteric women in outpatient care in southern Brazil", is justified by the need to know the dietary patterns of women in menopause, in particular the ...