patients and methods a total of 553 pregnant females, aged 18 - 40 years, during the third trimester of pregnancy, were included in the study. statistical analysis of pearson correlation coefficient, analysis of covariance for logistic regression and factor analysis were performed using spss software version 23. results in this study, pearson correlation coefficients between test and retest for...

study groups of individuals, not only by making laboratory investigations, but also by finding out what they eat, how well they are, and what happens to them in the future'. In U.P., systematic diet surveys have been undertaken since the establishment of the Nutrition section in 1948 in the Public Health Department and the Present study is an attempt to record what school boys living in boardin...

We utilized the most recent Demographic Health Survey data to explore the distribution of feeding practices and examine relationships between complementary feeding and socio-demographic and health behaviour indicators in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. We based our analysis on complementary dietary diversity scores calculated for children 6-23 months old. Geographically, Kenya displayed clear divis...

BACKGROUND Existing information on breastfeeding in low income countries such as Nepal has been largely derived from cross-sectional demographic health surveys. This study investigated exclusive breastfeeding rates, and compared the duration of exclusive breastfeeding between rural and urban mothers in central Nepal using an alternate cohort methodology. METHODS A community-based prospective ...

BACKGROUND Evidence on whether healthy diets are more expensive than current diets is mixed due to lack of robust methodology. The aim of this study was to develop a novel methodology to model the cost differential between healthy and current diets and apply it in New Zealand. METHODS Prices of common foods were collected from 15 supermarkets, 15 fruit/vegetable stores and from the Food Price...

The aim of this study was to assess whether the recently developed Diet Quality Index-International (DQI-I) was useful to evaluate the diet quality of a young Mediterranean population. A cross-sectional nutritional survey was carried out in southern Spain (Granada-Andalucia) from 2002 to 2005. Dietary information (24 h recall and FFQ) and socio-demographic and lifestyle data were collected from...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the associations of nutrition concerns, demographics, universalism (community oriented) values, perceived control over personal health and food buying, and perceived influence over the food system with intentions to purchase low fat, sugar and salt (LFSS) food products. METHODS A national online survey of 2204 Australian consumers administered in November 201...

The blood pressures of 252 men and 250 women, living in both urban and rural Zimbabwe, were measured on three separate occasions. Food and alcohol intakes were determined using a 3-day weighed diet survey checked by means of a detailed interview. Anthropometric data were also collected. No relationship was found between mean blood pressures and the alcohol intake for any socioeconomic group. Us...

OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence and trends in overweight and obesity among non-pregnant urban women in Africa over the past two and a half decades. DESIGN Cross-sectional surveys conducted between 1991 and 2014. SETTINGS Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), repeated cross-sectional data collected in 24 African countries. PARTICIPANTS Adult non-pregnant women aged 15-49 years. The ear...