Publications by authors named "Laura Lara-Castor"

Objectives: Given the considerable discrepancy in the literature regarding dietary protein and glucose homeostasis, we examined the prospective association between protein intake (total, animal, plant) and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus or impaired fasting glucose (IFG). We also examined whether these associations differed by sex, body weight, or other risk factors.

Methods: We included 1423 subjects, aged ≥ 30 years, in the Framingham Offspring Study cohort.

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The consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD). However, an updated and comprehensive assessment of the global burden attributable to SSBs remains scarce. Here we estimated SSB-attributable T2D and CVD burdens across 184 countries in 1990 and 2020 globally, regionally and nationally, incorporating data from the Global Dietary Database, jointly stratified by age, sex, educational attainment and urbanicity.

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Objective: To quantify global intakes of sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) and trends over time among children and adolescents.

Design: Population based study.

Setting: Global Dietary Database.

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Article Synopsis
  • The Global Dietary Database (GDD) improved its methods to collect and standardize individual-level dietary data from global nutrition surveys, ensuring easier access and analysis of this information.
  • Using a detailed food classification system (FoodEx2), the GDD harmonized data from 600 identified surveys, ultimately integrating 52 diverse dietary surveys that spanned various income levels and included participants of all ages and backgrounds.
  • The findings revealed that many surveys from lower-income countries reported fewer nutrients, indicating gaps in essential nutrient data, especially for those related to chronic diseases, highlighting the need for improved nutrition tracking.
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Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are associated with cardiometabolic diseases and social inequities. For most nations, recent estimates and trends of intake are not available; nor variation by education or urbanicity. We investigated SSB intakes among adults between 1990 and 2018 in 185 countries, stratified subnationally by age, sex, education, and rural/urban residence, using data from the Global Dietary Database.

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The global burden of diet-attributable type 2 diabetes (T2D) is not well established. This risk assessment model estimated T2D incidence among adults attributable to direct and body weight-mediated effects of 11 dietary factors in 184 countries in 1990 and 2018. In 2018, suboptimal intake of these dietary factors was estimated to be attributable to 14.

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Introduction And Objective: To determine the prevalence of elevated liver enzyme levels and the fatty liver index according to specific sociodemographic, clinical, anthropometric, and metabolic risk factors in Mexican adult population.

Material And Methods: The present analysis was conducted using data from the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey 2016. For the present study, 3,490 adults with complete information on liver enzymes, sociodemographic, lifestyle, and metabolic factors were analyzed.

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Promoting traditional diets could potentially reduce the current high rates of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) globally. While the traditional Mexican diet (TMexD) could be specifically promoted in Mexico, a concise definition of the TMexD and evidence of its association with NCDs are needed before its promotion. To evaluate what constitutes this diet pattern, we aimed to systematically review, for the first time, how the TMexD has been described in the literature to date.

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