| Literature DB >> 26247996 |
Letícia Ferreira Tavares1, Inês Rugani Ribeiro de Castro2, Renata Bertazzi Levy3, Letícia de Oliveira Cardoso4, Rafael Moreira Claro5.
Abstract
The objectives of this study were to identify dietary patterns in Brazilian adolescents, describe their distributions in Brazil's State capitals and Federal District, and analyze the correlations with the Municipal Human Development Index (HDI-M). The study analyzed a sample of 60,954 ninth-graders from public and private schools who participated in the National School-Based Health Survey (PeNSE) in 2009. Cluster analysis was used to characterize dietary patterns. Three patterns were identified: healthy (27.7%), unhealthy (34.6%), and mixed (37.7%). Adolescents in the country's Southeast, South, and Central West regions showed a higher proportion of the healthy eating pattern. HDI-M showed a positive correlation with the healthy pattern and a negative correlation with the mixed pattern. The identification of different dietary patterns within and between regions and according to HDI-M highlights the need for better knowledge of each local context in terms of both the magnitude of events and the examination of determinants within these different realities.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID： 26247996 DOI： 10.1590/0102-311X00016814
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cad Saude Publica ISSN： 0102-311X Impact factor: 1.632