The Influence of Eating at Home on Dietary Diversity and Airway Inflammation in Portuguese School-Aged Children.

ABSTRACT: Considering the negative impact of a lack of dietary diversity on children's nutritional status, we aimed to describe dietary variety according to eating at home frequency and assessed its association with respiratory outcomes in school-aged children. This cross-sectional study included 590 children (49% girls) aged 7 to 12 years from 20 public schools located in city of Porto, Portugal. Daily frequency of eating at home groups were calculated and dietary diversity was calculated using a 10-food group score from a 24 h recall questionnaire. Spirometry and exhaled nitric oxide levels (eNO; <35 and ≥35 ppb) were assessed. The comparison of diet diversity according to the groups was performed by ANOVA and ANCOVA. The association between dietary diversity and respiratory outcomes was examined

SUBMITTER: de Castro-Mendes F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7967357 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature