Background Increasing trends in global obesity have been attributed to a nutrition transition
where healthy foods are replaced by ultra-processed foods. It remains unknown if this …

Abstract Background Latin America is facing an increasing burden of nutrition-related non-
communicable disease. Little is known about dietary patterns in Guatemalan adults and how …

Background Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are amongst the leading causes of death
worldwide. Risk factors of CVD develop during childhood and adolescence, and dietary …

Dietary patterns (DPs) are an essential tool to analyze the relationship between diet and
health as they have presented an association with the incidence of chronic non …

Aim The purpose of the present study was to determine the association of unhealthy dietary
food items with cardiometabolic risk factors with and without sociodemographic factors …

Cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders are disproportionately prevalent among
Hispanic and Latino adults in the United States. We extracted a posteriori dietary patterns …

We assessed the association of four diet quality scores with multiple cardio-metabolic
outcomes among Guatemalan young adults experiencing the nutrition transition. We …

Background Multiple dietary patterns have been recommended by the 2015–2020 Dietary
Guidelines for Americans for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The …

Background: Dietary patterns may predict cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk more
accurately than does consumption of specific nutrients or foods. Objective: We evaluated the …

Introduction The prevalence of overweight and obesity in Mexican adults is very high. To
identify the dietary characteristics related with this disorder is necessary to design …