Trial reportPublic health nutrition2021
Ultra-processed foods and early childhood caries in 0-3-year-olds enrolled at Primary Healthcare Centers in Southern Brazil.
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- Impacts of Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods on the Maternal-Child Health: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Squeezed Out: Commercial Baby Food Pouch Feeding Practices, Caregiver Perceptions, Caries Experience, and Public Health Implications.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Financialization, Food Sovereignty, and Oral Health: A Structured Narrative Review Within the One Health Framework for Sustainable Food Systems.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- Association of ultra-processed foods and dental health-results from Bandare-Kong cohort: structural equation modeling.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Evolution of income inequalities in the caries experience of 5-year-old children in Brazil between 2010 and 2023.Revista brasileira de epidemiologia = Brazilian journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- The impact of ultra-processed foods on pediatric health.Obesity pillars · 2025Review
- Association between first 2 years' feeding practices and early childhood caries: a birth cohort study in Shanghai.BMC oral health · 2025Article
- The Relationship Between Processed Food Consumption and Periodontal Disease: Sex Disparities in the Majorcan Adolescent Population.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Consumption of ultra-processed foods and dental caries in Brazilian adolescents.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Private school canteens: an analysis of the economic and financial aspects of the traditional and the healthy models.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Feeding Practices and Early Childhood Caries in Korean Preschool Children.International dental journal · 2022Article
- The Associations between Caregivers' Emotional and Instrumental Feeding, Children's Emotional Eating, and Children's Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods in China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Nutrition research challenges for processed food and health.Nature food · 2022Review
- In This Issue: Ultra-processed food and health.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Ultra-processed foods and early childhood caries in 0-3-year-olds enrolled at Primary Healthcare Centers in Southern Brazil - ERRATUM.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate the relationship between ultra-processed food consumption and early childhood caries.
designCross-sectional analysis of baseline data from a cluster randomised controlled study. Outcomes included the prevalence of children with non-cavitated and cavitated caries. The main exposure was the total daily consumption of ultra-processed foods (up to three times and four times or more), assessed through a FFQ. Potential confounders were socio-demographic characteristics of the child and caregiver/family, child breast-feeding, oral hygiene and use of dental services. Poisson regression using robust variance adjustment was used to estimate prevalence ratios (PR) and their respective 95 % CI.
settingPrimary Healthcare Centers in an urban area of Pelotas, Southern Brazil.
participantsChildren aged 0-3 years (n 309).
resultsConsumption of ultra-processed foods four times or more a day was found in 67·6 % of children; 24·4 and 12·0 % presented non-cavitated and cavitated caries, respectively. After adjustment, children who consumed ultra-processed foods four times or more a day were more likely to present both non-cavitated caries (PR 2·25, 95 % CI 1·19, 4·27, P = 0·013) and cavitated caries (PR 3·48, 95 % CI 1·18, 10·30, P = 0·024) compared with those who have consumed them up to three times a day.
conclusionsConsumption of ultra-processed foods is associated with early childhood caries. Interventions aiming at reducing ultra-processed food consumption should be implemented to improve children's oral health.
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