Browsing by Author "Duran-Aguero, Samuel"

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    Bodyweight change and its association with food and beverage consumption at the beginning COVID-19 confinement
    (2022) Cavagnari, Brian M.; Fernanda Vinueza-Veloz, Maria; Carpio-Arias, Valeria; Duran-Aguero, Samuel; Rios-Castillo, Israel; Nava-Gonzalez, Edna J.; Perez-Armijo, Patricio; Camacho-Lopez, Saby; Mauricio-Alza, Saby; Jairo Bejarano-Roncancio, Jhon; Nunez-Martinez, Beatriz; Gonzalez-Medina, Gabriel; Ivankovich-Guillen, Sonia; Ortiz, Alfonsina; Cordon-Arrivillaga, Karla; Romina Meza-Miranda, Eliana; Landaeta-Diaz, Leslie
    Objectives: SARS-CoV-2, a newly identified coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, has challenged health services and profoundly impacted people's lifestyles. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect of confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic on food consumption patterns and body weight in adults from 12 Ibero-American countries.Methods: Multicentric, cross-sectional study. Data was collected using an online survey disseminated by social networks. The sample included 10 552 people from Spain and 11 Latin American countries who were selected by snowball sampling.Results: While 38.50% of the sample reported weight gain, 16.90% reported weight lost. Weight change was associated with sex, age, country of residence, and education level. People who were not confined more often reported having maintained their weight in comparison to people who were confined. All Latin American countries showed an increased consumption of sweetened drinks, pastry products, fried foods, and alcoholic beverages during confinement. Consumption of eggs and dairy products was independent from body weight change. People who consumed more fruits and vegetables during confinement more often reported having lost weight. In contrast, body weight gain during confinement was associated with increased intake of sugary drinks, baked goods and pastries, pizza, fried foods, and alcoholic beverages.Conclusion: During COVID-19 confinement, the Latin American countries included in this study showed a change in their consumption patterns toward less healthy diets, which in turn was associated with an increase in the body weight of their population. (c) 2022 European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Comparison and migrations of physical activity during covid-19 confinement in Latin American
    (2022) Duran-Aguero, Samuel; Hernandez, Jose; Parra-Soto, Solange; Puschel, Cristian; Zapata, Andres; Cerda, Enrique; Rios, Mauricio
    Purpose: The study aims to characterize the practice and migration of physical activity in active people during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design: Cross-sectional observational study of a Latin American survey. Setting: An online survey in Google Forms format was applied between June and July 2020 through social networks. The survey consisted of general characteristics, characteristics of confinement, and characteristics related to physical activity. Subjects: 2134 people participated (33.6% male, the mean age was 30.7 +/- 9.2 years), 95.2% with higher education, 74% were normal weight, 60.8% in voluntary lockdown, and 39.2% mandatory lockdown. Results: Pre-pandemic men did 217.92 min/week, and women 199.78 min/week; post-pandemic men declined to 168.34 min/week, and women to 176.70 min/week. Men pre-pandemic, had a higher proportion of compliance the WHO recommendation (77.3% vs 64.9% p =0.001). Regarding, physical activity migrations, men decreased in outside activities, team sports and increase in home physical activity, in women decreased in outside activities, team sports and an increased in fitness classes, yoga and home physical activity. Finally, when associating compliance with physical activity during confinement, it is associated with being a woman and with long weeks of confinement. Conclusion: The physically active people, despite the confinements, remain like this in the four countries evaluated; only changes are observed in the type of physical activity and the frequency of weekly sessions, not affecting their physical condition levels according to self-report.
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    Exploring food intake networks and anhedonia symptoms in a Chilean Adults sample
    (2023) Landaeta-Diaz, Leslie; Duran-Aguero, Samuel; Gonzalez-Medina, Gabriel
    Introduction: high-calorie and sugar-sweetened food is considered more pleasant food. People with anhedonia symptoms have difficulties experiencing pleasure in daily activities. However, is still unclear if anhedonia symptomatology increases palatable food consumption in the Chilean Adults sample.Objective: to explore food networks in the Chilean Adults sample and in people with anhedonia symptom.Methods: the sample was recruited through digital platforms. Pregnant or lactating women and subjects under pharmacological treatment or psychotherapy were excluded. A total of 1242 subjects, 76.6% women, with a mean age of 30.7 (SD 9.3) and who were highly educated, participated in the study. Data were collected through an online survey. A questionnaire on food consumption based on daily and weekly frequency was used, as well as the Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale to measure anhedonia symptoms. We employed the Gaussian graph model (GGM) to analyze food consumption as networks. We started with the total sample, and then we repeated the analysis on a subsample with anhedonia symptoms, and next on a subsample with exclusively food-related anhedonia.Results: in the total sample, a positive and strong relationship was observed between fruits and vegetables, as well as a negative association with the triad of sugar-sweetened beverages, fast food, and fried food. The network in anhedonic subjects shows that "pasta, rice & potatoes" and "bread" have a stronger association and a more central place in the network compared those without anhedonia symptoms.Conclusions: Subjects with anhedonia symptoms have a more central consumption of foods with a high or medium glycemic index compared to subjects without anhedonia symptoms, which could trigger the development of chronic diet-related diseases.
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    Food insecurity and sociodemographic factors in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic
    (2024) Novoa-Sanzana, Stephanie; Moya-Osorio, Jose; Teran, Yadira Morejon; Rios-Castillo, Israel; Granados, Luis Miguel Becerra; Gomez, Gloria Prada; de Ixtacuy, Monica Ramos; Condori, Roxana Carla Fernandez; Nessier, Marfa Celeste; Gomez, Ana Guerrero; Gonzalez-Cespedes, Laura; Nava-Gonzalez, Edna J.; Ocampo, Luisa Perez; Castillo-Albarracin, Adriana Nathaly; Duran-Aguero, Samuel
    Objective. To understand the association of food insecurity with sociodemographic factors in a sample population in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods. This was a multicenter cross-sectional study conducted in 10 countries in Latin America using an online survey through various digital platforms from October 14, 2020 to February 15, 2021. Statistical analysis of data was performed by applying descriptive statistics, chi-square test, and logistic regression analysis. Results. Of a total of 6 357 surveys, 58.2% of respondents experienced food security, 29.3% were slightly food insecure, 9.2% were moderately food insecure, and 3.3% were severely food insecure. Concerning the association food insecurity and sociodemographic variables, there is a significant association in the variables studied, including area of residence, education level, occupation, number of persons in the household, household with children younger than 10 years of age, and socioeconomic level. Conclusions. These findings indicate that sociodemographic factors associated with food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America were rural residence; complete and incomplete basic and secondary schooling; occupation (homemaker, unemployed, and self-employed); low, medium-low, and medium socioeconomic level; household with more than four persons; and household with children younger than 10 years of age.
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    Food Purchase Prioritization During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin America
    (2024) Acuna, Laura Quezada; Duran-Aguero, Samuel; Moya-Osorio, Jose; Teran, Yadira Morejon; Ocampo, Luisa Perez; Granados, Luis Miguel Becerra; Rios-Castillo, Israel; Gomez, Gloria Prada; de Ixtacuy, Monica Ramos; Condori, Roxana Carla Fernandez; Nessier, Maria Celeste; Gomez, Ana Guerrero; Gonzalez-Cespedes, Laura; Nava-Gonzalez, Edna J.
    The paper determines the prioritization of household food purchases during the COVID-19 pandemic confinement in Latin America. This is a multicenter, cross-sectional study. An online questionnaire including sociodemographic, socioeconomic, and food purchasing prioritization information was sent through digital platforms. A total of 6,357 individuals participated; 83.6% were women, 56.3% belonged to the middle socioeconomic level. Low socioeconomic level was correlated with high prioritization of rice/pasta, potatoes, cookies, sugar/bread, flours, and sweets. The higher the socioeconomic level, the higher the purchasing of alcohol, nuts, vegetables, and meats. Purchase prioritization is related to the socioeconomic level of the participants.
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    Psychological factors of diet quality among rural populations of Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cress-sectional study
    (2022) Duran-Aguero, Samuel; Fernanda Vinueza-Veloz, Maria; Gonzalez-Medina, Gabriel; Carpio-Arias, Valeria; Rios-Castillo, Israel; Cavagnari, Brian M.; Nava-Gonzalez, Edna J.; Camacho-Lopez, Saby; Cordon-Arrivillaga, Karla; Nunez-Martinez, Beatriz; Romina Meza-Miranda, Eliana; Ortiz, Alfonsina; Perez-Armijo, Patricio; Jairo Bejarano-Roncancio, John; Ivankovich-Guillen, Sonia; Mauricio-Alza, Saby; Landaeta-Diaz, Leslie
    Introduction: This study aimed to determine the relationship between symptoms of anxiety and/or anhedonia (inability to feel pleasure) and diet quality during confinement due to COVID-19 in rural populations in Latin America.
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    Stress factors and food purchase prioritization during the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019
    (2024) Quezada-Acuna, Laura; Parra-Soto, Solange; Duran-Aguero, Samuel; Morejon-Teran, Yadira; Perez-Ocampo, Luisa; Becerra-Granados, Luis Miguel; Rios-Castillo, Israel; Prada-Gomez, Gloria; de Ixtacuy, Monica Ramos; Fernandez-Condori, Roxana Carla; Nessier, Maria Celeste; Guerrero-Gomez, Ana; Gonzalez, Laura; Nava-Gonzalez, Edna J.; Moya-Osorio, Jose Luis
    Background: The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic con finement has an impact on stress levels, which causes changes in food purchase and consumption behaviors. The objective of this study is to associate food purchase prioritization with stress level during the COVID-19 pandemic con finement. Methods: Multicenter, observational and cross-sectional study, an online questionnaire that included data on sociodemographic variables, stress factors and food purchase prioritization was disseminated through digital platforms and social networks. Results: A number of 6357 participants were included, of whom 83.6% were female, 56.3% were from the middle socioeconomic level, 71.2% had completed higher education and 78.3% had a job. At greater stress levels it was observed a higher prioritization of canned foods (Odds ratio (OR): 1.91, 95% CI: 1.56; 2.34), sweets (OR: 1.58, 95% CI: 1.06; 2.34) and flours (OR: 1.45, 95% CI: 1.25; 1.68). While lower stress levels are associated with nuts (OR: 0.75, 95% CI: 0.66; 0.85), vegetables (OR: 0.82, 95% CI: 0.72; 0.94), and fruits (OR: 0.90, 95% CI: 0.80; 1.01), after adjusting for confounders. Conclusions: There is an association between food purchase prioritization and stress level during the COVID-19 con finement. At greater stress levels, individuals purchase more food, both healthy and unhealthy. The later may have a negative impact on people's health, leading to or further aggravating malnutrition by excess and nutrition -related noncommunicable diseases. (c) 2024 European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.