Universidade Federal de Pelotas. Faculdade de Medicina. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Epidemiologia. Pelotas, RS, Brasil.
Universidade Federal de Pelotas. Escola Superior de Educação Física. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Física. Pelotas, RS, Brasil.
Rev Saude Publica. 2022 Sep 12;56:79. doi: 10.11606/s1518-8787.2022056003822. eCollection 2022.
Assessing the regular consumption of ultra-processed foods by children at 24 months of age from the 2015 Pelotas Birth Cohort and the main demographic, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors related to the consumption of these products.
Population-based cohort in the city of Pelotas, RS, where 4,275 children were assessed at birth and 95.4% of them were followed up until 24 months of age. Food consumption was assessed by a questionnaire on regular consumption of ultra-processed foods, which collected information regarding sex, household income, maternal skin color, schooling level, and age, the child attending day care and having siblings, breastfeeding status, and obesity. The outcome was the sum of ultra-processed foods regularly consumed by a child. A multivariate Poisson regression analysis was used to calculate the association between the regular consumption of ultra-processed foods and exposure variables.
The mean number of ultra-processed foods consumed was 4.8 (SD = 2.3). The regular consumption of ultra-processed foods was positively associated with black skin color and having siblings, and negatively associated with household income and maternal schooling level and age.
The mean regular consumption of ultra-processed foods by children from the 2015 Pelotas Birth Cohort is high, which can negatively affect the children's diet. The risk of consuming this kind of food was higher among children from families of lower socioeconomic status, whose mothers present lower education level, black skin color, and younger age.
评估 2015 年佩洛塔斯出生队列中 24 个月大的儿童对超加工食品的定期消费情况，以及与这些产品消费相关的主要人口统计学、社会经济和行为因素。
这是一项基于人群的队列研究，在 RS 州的佩洛塔斯市进行，其中 4275 名儿童在出生时进行了评估，95.4%的儿童在 24 个月时进行了随访。通过问卷评估儿童定期食用超加工食品的情况，收集有关性别、家庭收入、母亲肤色、受教育程度和年龄、儿童是否上日托和是否有兄弟姐妹、母乳喂养状况以及肥胖情况的信息。结果是儿童定期食用的超加工食品的总和。采用多变量泊松回归分析来计算超加工食品定期消费与暴露变量之间的关联。
平均消费的超加工食品数量为 4.8（SD=2.3）。超加工食品的定期消费与黑皮肤和有兄弟姐妹呈正相关，与家庭收入以及母亲的受教育程度和年龄呈负相关。
2015 年佩洛塔斯出生队列中儿童的超加工食品定期消费均值较高，这可能会对儿童的饮食产生负面影响。来自社会经济地位较低家庭的儿童，其母亲受教育程度较低、皮肤颜色较黑且年龄较小，食用这种食品的风险更高。
