Data
Year of publication
2020
Type
Quantitative
Design
Literature Review
Classification
NOVA
Country studied
Global
Data
Secondary
Data Collected
Database
Study setting
Online
Age group of participant
N/A
Participant sex
N/A
Target population
N/A
Sample size
n=6423 (papers)
Food processing and cardiometabolic risk factors: Systematic review
Goal
Systematically review the evidence for the association between food consumption according to processing and cardiometabolic factors in adults and/or the elderly.
Results
Of the 6,423 studies identified after removing duplicates, eleven met the eligibility criteria. The main food classification we used was Nova. The consumption of ultra-processed foods was positively associated with overweight and obesity, high blood pressure and metabolic syndrome. All articles included met more than 50% of the methodological quality criteria. The quality of evidence was considered moderate for the outcome overweight and obesity and weak for hypertension and metabolic syndrome.
Authors
Santos FS, Dias MS, Mintem GC, Oliveira IO, Giant DP.
Journal
Public Health Journal
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