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SUBMITTER: Fisberg M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5946174 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fisberg Mauro M Kovalskys Irina I Gómez Georgina G Rigotti Attilio A Sanabria Lilia Yadira Cortés LYC García Martha Cecilia Yépez MCY Torres Rossina Gabriella Pareja RGP Herrera-Cuenca Marianella M Zimberg Ioná Zalcman IZ Koletzko Berthold B Pratt Michael M Aznar Luis A Moreno LAM Guajardo Viviana V Fisberg Regina Mara RM Sales Cristiane Hermes CH Previdelli Ágatha Nogueira ÁN
Nutrients 20180322 4
Non-communicable diseases are growing at an alarming rate in Latin America. We assessed total and added sugar intake in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela, to verify the adequacy of the World Health Organization's recommendations, considering gender, socioeconomic level (SEL) and age. A total of 9218 non-institutionalized individuals living in urban areas (age range 15-65 years) were assessed in the Latin American Study of Nutrition and Health (ELANS), a ...[more]