Irruption of Network Analysis to Explain Dietary, Psychological and Nutritional Patterns and Metabolic Health Status in Metabolically Healthy and Unhealthy Overweight and Obese University Students: Ecuadorian Case.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The association between dietary nutritional patterns, psychological factors, and metabolic health status has not been investigated in university students. There are studies that include numerous variables to test hypotheses from various theoretical bases, but due to their complexity, they have not been studied in combination. The scientific community recognizes the use of Gaussian graphical models (GGM) as a set of novel methods capable of addressing this.

Objective

To apply GGMs to derive specific networks for groups of healthy and unhealthy obese individuals that represent nutritional, psychological, and metabolic patterns in an Ecuadorian population.

Methodology

This was a quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional, correlational study conducted on

SUBMITTER: Aguirre-Quezada MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11397439 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature