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Gustavo Velasquez-Melendez
Researcher at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publications - 171
Citations - 41243
Gustavo Velasquez-Melendez is an academic researcher from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Overweight. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 164 publications receiving 32806 citations. Previous affiliations of Gustavo Velasquez-Melendez include University of Science and Technology.
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Validity and reliability of a telephone survey of physical activity in Brazil.
Alexandra Dias Moreira,Rafael Moreira Claro,Mariana Santos Felisbino-Mendes,Gustavo Velasquez-Melendez +3 more
TL;DR: A atividade fisica no Brasil e avaliada by the Sistema de Vigilância de Fatores de Risco e Protecao para Doencas Cronicas por Inquerito Telefonico (VIGITEL) is discussed in this article.
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Validade e reprodutibilidade de marcadores do consumo de alimentos e bebidas de um inquérito telefônico realizado na cidade de Belo Horizonte (MG), Brasil
Larissa Loures Mendes,Suellen Fabiane Campos,Deborah Carvalho Malta,Deborah Carvalho Malta,Regina Tomie Ivata Bernal,Naíza Nayla Bandeira de Sá,Gustavo Velasquez-Melendez +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the validity and reproducibility markers of food and beverage intake obtained by means of a telephone-based surveillance system, using kappa statistics to measure the similarity between the results of the proportions obtained in the first and second interviews.
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Sugar-Sweetened Soft Drinks and Fructose Consumption Are Associated with Hyperuricemia: Cross-Sectional Analysis from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil)
Jordana Herzog Siqueira,José Geraldo Mill,Gustavo Velasquez-Melendez,Alexandra Dias Moreira,Sandhi Maria Barreto,Isabela M. Benseñor,Maria del Carmen Bisi Molina +6 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that the consumption of soft drinks and dietary fructose is positively associated with a higher chance of hyperuricemia and higher uric acid levels in Brazilian adults.
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Estado nutricional dos adolescentes e sua relação com variáveis sociodemográficas: Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde do Escolar (PeNSE), 2009
Cora Luiza Pavin Araújo,Natacha Toral,Ana Carolina Feldenheimer da Silva,Gustavo Velasquez-Melendez,Antonio José Ribeiro Dias +4 more
TL;DR: Adolescents whose mothers were less educated or from poorer families had greater deficits in height and the reverse occurred with overweight and obesity, highlighting the need for nutritional interventions designed to reach this stage of life.
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Atividade física e fatores associados em adultos de área rural em Minas Gerais, Brasil
Paula Gonçalves Bicalho,Pedro C. Hallal,Andrea Gazzinelli,Alan Goularte Knuth,Gustavo Velasquez-Melendez +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a study of 567 adults living in two communities rurais in the Vale do Jequitinhonha, MG, found that men were more ativos than women in trabalho, domicilio, lazer, and deslocamento.