Childbearing Age Women Characteristics in Latin America. Building Evidence Bases for Early Prevention. Results from the ELANS Study

Nutrients

on behalf of the ELANS Study Group¹  Maritza Landaeta-Jimenez²  Yaritza Sifontes²  Marianella Herrera-Cuenca³  Martha Cecilia Yépez García⁴  Berthold Koletzko⁵  Georgina Gómez⁶  Lilia Yadira Cortés⁷  Attilio Rigotti⁸  Agatha Nogueira Previdelli⁹  Irina Kovalskys^1,10  Mauro Fisberg^1,11  Rossina Pareja^1,12  Pablo Hernandez^1,13 

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[2]Bengoa Foundation for Food and Nutrition, Caracas 1071, Venezuela

[3]Center for Development Studies, Central University of Venezuela (CENDES-UCV), Caracas 1050, Venezuela

[4]College of Health Sciences, San Francisco de Quito University, Quito 17-1200-841, Ecuador

[5]Departamento Paediatrics, Division Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, LMU University of Munich, D-80377 Munich, Germany

[6]Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Costa Rica, San José 11501-2060, Costa Rica

[7]Department of Nutrition and Biochemistry, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá 110111, Colombia

[8]Department of Nutrition, Diabetes and Metabolism, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago 833-0024, Chile

[9]Faculty of Biological and Health Sciences, University São Judas Tadeu, São Paulo 03166-000, Brazil

[10]Faculty of Medicine, The Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, Buenos Aires C1107AAZ, Argentina

[11]Instituto Pensi, José Egydio Setubal Foundation, Sabará Children’s Hospital, São Paulo 01239-040, Brazil

[12]Nutrition Research Institute, La Molina, Lima 15026, Peru

[13]School of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Medicine, Central University of Venezuela, Caracas 1041-A, Venezuela

关键词: childbearing age women;    Latin America;    nutritional status;    food consumption;    physical activity;   

DOI  :  10.3390/nu13010045

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Latin American (LA) women have been exposed to demographic and epidemiologic changes that have transformed their lifestyle, with increasing sedentary and unhealthy eating behaviors. We aimed to identify characteristics of LA women to inform public policies that would benefit these women and their future children. The Latin American Study of Nutrition and Health (ELANS) is a multicenter cross-sectional study of representative samples in eight Latin American countries (n = 9218) with a standardized protocol to investigate dietary intake, anthropometric variables, physical activity, and socioeconomic characteristics. Here we included the subsample of all 3254 women of childbearing age (15 to <45 years). The majority of ELANS women had a low socioeconomic status (53.5%), had a basic education level (56.4%), had a mostly sedentary lifestyle (61.1%), and were overweight or obese (58.7%). According to the logistic multiple regression model, living in Peru and Ecuador predicts twice the risk of being obese, and an increased neck circumference is associated with a 12-fold increased obesity risk. An increased obesity risk was also predicted by age <19 years (Relative Risk (RR) 19.8) and adequate consumption of vitamin D (RR 2.12) and iron (RR 1.3). In conclusion, the identification of these risk predictors of obesity among Latin American women may facilitate targeted prevention strategies focusing on high-risk groups to promote the long-term health of women and their children.

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