TY - JOUR AU - de Andrade Barbosa RIBEIRO, Ana Raquel AU - Franklin de CARVALHO, Danielle AU - da Silva Cardoso CANTALICE, Anajás AU - Oliveira da Silva SIMÕES, Mônica AU - TEIXEIRA, Alexandra AU - Campos Muniz MEDEIROS, Carla PY - 2022/05/25 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Association between breakfast omission and abdominal adiposity in low-income adolescents JF - Revista de Nutrição JA - Rev. Nutr. VL - 34 IS - SE - ARTIGOS ORIGINAIS DO - UR - https://seer.sis.puc-campinas.edu.br/nutricao/article/view/5853 SP - 1-9 AB - <p>Objective <br>To assess the association between breakfast omission, overweight/obesity, abdominal adiposity, and unhealthy lifestyle of low-income adolescents.</p><p>Methods<br>A cross-sectional population study involving 571 public school students aged between 15 and 19 years old. The habit of having breakfast was assessed using a form, checking the weekly frequency of a given meal and considered as breakfast omission when these adolescents did not have breakfast for at least 5 days in the past week. Sociodemographic and lifestyle variables (sedentarism, physical activity level, and sleep duration) were also assessed. Overweight/obesity was defined as a body mass index above a Z-score of +1, and the presence of abdominal adiposity was determined by a waist circumference/height ratio greater than 0.5. The association between breakfast omission and lifestyle variables was assessed using the chi-square test and a multivariate logistic regression of the anthropometric indicators.<br>Results<br>The omission of breakfast was found in 31% of the adolescents and was associated with physical inactivity (p&lt;0.001). <br>Regarding anthropometric indicators, breakfast omission was an independent factor for determining abdominal adiposity, with a 1.8 times greater chance of having this condition among those who omitted breakfast (p=0.037).<br>Conclusion<br>Omitting breakfast was frequent among the students assessed, and was associated with abdominal adiposity, a cardiometabolic risk factor. Investigation and early intervention are fundamental to change this behavior.</p> ER -