Role of ultra-processed food in fat mass index between 6 and 11 years of age: a cohort study
Costa CDS, Assunção MCF, Loret de Mola C, Cardoso JS, Matijasevich A, Barros AJD, Santos IS
International journal of epidemiology · 48 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Cohort study (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
- Intake measured by
- Food frequency questionnaire
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Nonprofit
- Wellcome Trust
- Government
- Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
- Government
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
- Unclassified
- DECIT
- Government
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico- Brazil CNPq
- Grants
- Wellcome Trust (086974/Z/08/Z); Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior ((Code 001)); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (2013-1); Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (2013-1); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (400943/2013-1)
Based on 5 listed funder(s).
Publication
- Published
- 2020-07-17 · Int J Epidemiol · vol. 50 · issue 1 · pp. 256–265
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Cited
- 65 citations · more than 98% of similar papers · 6.9× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 48 works
- Access
- Free to read
- Research areas
- Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Keywords
- Body mass index, Obesity, Medicine, Cohort, Calorie, Food consumption, Cohort study, Consumption (sociology), Environmental health, Body fat percentage, Childhood obesity, Demography, Food science, Overweight, Endocrinology, Biology, Internal medicine, Agricultural economics
- MeSH
- humans, obesity, diet, cohort studies, energy intake, adolescent, child, brazil, fast foods
7 authors
From BR
- Caroline dos Santos Costa · correspondingUniversidade de São Paulo
- Maria Cecília Formoso AssunçãoUniversidade Federal de Pelotas
- Christian Loret de MolaUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande
- Juliane de Souza CardosoUniversidade Federal de Pelotas
- Alícia MatijasevichUniversidade de São Paulo
- Aluísio J. D. BarrosUniversidade Federal de Pelotas
Abstract
Background
Ultra-processed food consumption and obesity have been highlighted as an important relationship to public health. We aimed to evaluate the association between ultra-processed food consumption and body fat from 6 to 11 years of age.
Methods
We assessed the association between ultra-processed food consumption (from food frequency questionnaires) and body fat (measured by air displacement plethysmography) between 6 and 11 years of age among participants of the Pelotas-Brazil 2004 Birth Cohort. The NOVA classification was used to classify foods according to the processing degree. Body fat was evaluated relative to the height using fat mass index (FMI). Generalized estimating equations were used to answer the main research question and mediation analyses were run to assess the direct and indirect effect of ultra-processed food in body fat.
Results
At fully adjusted analysis, an increase of 100 g in contribution from ultra-processed food to daily food intake at between 6 and 11 years of age was associated with a gain of 0.14 kg/m² in FMI in the same period; 58% of the total effect of ultra-processed food intake at 6 years (in grams) over the change in FMI from 6 to 11 years was mediated by its calorie content.
Conclusions
Ultra-processed food consumption was associated with an increase in body fat from childhood to early adolescence, and this association was not just due to the effect of ultra-processed food on calorie content.
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