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Zonta ML, Servián A, Virgolini B, Garraza M, Minardi G, Navone GT. Malnutrition and intestinal parasitosis: Current prevalences and risk factors among schoolchildren in Misiones (Argentina). Am J Hum Biol 2024:e24140. [PMID: 39034672 DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.24140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2024] [Revised: 07/10/2024] [Accepted: 07/11/2024] [Indexed: 07/23/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVES To assess the current prevalences of nutritional status and intestinal parasites, and their potential association with socio-environmental conditions among schoolchildren in Aristóbulo del Valle, Misiones. METHODS We measured body weight and height in 444 schoolchildren aged 3-14 years and evaluated their nutritional status following WHO criteria. We examined fecal samples and anal swabs from 234 schoolchildren and collected socio-environmental data through questionnaires. RESULTS The prevalence of undernutrition was 4.5% and excess of weight was 24.1%. The prevalence of stunting and of being overweight reached 2.3% and 12.4%, respectively. About 42% of the schoolchildren were infected with at least one of the 12 species identified. The most prevalent species were Blastocystis sp., Enterobius vermicularis, and Giardia lamblia. Entamoeba dispar was recorded for the first time in the locality. The multiple correspondence analysis identified peri-urban, urban, and rural groups. Underweight, stunting and obesity were highest in the peri-urban group, while overweight, wasting and parasitism rates were highest in the rural group. The urban group showed the lowest parasitic prevalences. Bed-sharing, mother's education, and animal husbandry were associated with parasitic infections. CONCLUSIONS The study highlights a decrease in undernutrition but a rise in overweight and obesity, indicating an ongoing nutritional transition. The association between socio-environmental risk factors and parasitic infections underscore the need for comprehensive interventions addressing both nutritional and socio-environmental conditions to improve the population's life quality.
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- María Lorena Zonta
- Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (CEPAVE-CONICET-UNLP-asoc. CIC), Buenos Aires, La Plata, Argentina
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- Instituto Nacional de Parasitología (INP) "Dr. Mario Fatala Chaben", Paseo Colón 568 (1063), Administración Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud (ANLIS), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (CEPAVE-CONICET-UNLP-asoc. CIC), Buenos Aires, La Plata, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Ontogenia y Adaptación (LINOA)-Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo (FCNyM), Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (CEPAVE-CONICET-UNLP-asoc. CIC), Buenos Aires, La Plata, Argentina
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- Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (CEPAVE-CONICET-UNLP-asoc. CIC), Buenos Aires, La Plata, Argentina
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Lu M, Liang Y, Lakshmanan P, Guan X, Liu D, Chen X. Magnesium application reduced heavy metal-associated health risks and improved nutritional quality of field-grown Chinese cabbage. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2021; 289:117881. [PMID: 34352630 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2021] [Revised: 07/07/2021] [Accepted: 07/29/2021] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Magnesium (Mg) is one of essential plant nutrients needed for optimal growth, yield and quality formation. Also, soil application of Mg fertilizer has been shown to be an effective approach to improve vegetable Mg nutrition. Leafy vegetables can accumulate relatively high levels of heavy metals in the above-ground plant parts. However, it remains unclear as to whether soil-applied Mg affects the vegetable nutritional quality and human health risk of heavy metals from field-grown Chinese cabbage. Here we conducted a two-year, two-crop cycle field experiment in south-western China to evaluate crop yield, vegetable nutrition and heavy metal accumulation in Chinese cabbage supplied with varying levels of Mg (0-90 kg ha-1). Soil application of Mg did not increase the cabbage yield. However, it did increase the vegetable vitamin C and water-soluble protein content by 20.0 % and 57.9 % with 45 and 22.5 kg Mg ha-1 application, respectively, compared to control. The nitrate content of Mg-supplied (45 kg ha-1) cabbages was significantly lower, by about 14 %, than the control. Further, it also significantly decreased the accumulation of cadmium and nickel in the above-ground tissues by reducing their uptake from soil to root or their translocation from root to shoot. Magnesium application, however, increased chromium uptake. A human health risks assessment nonetheless showed that the contribution of chromium from Mg-supplied plants to threshold hazard quotient and threshold carcinogenic risk were indeed much lower than that of cadmium and nickel, proving the value of crop Mg supplementation for ameliorating non-carcinogenic and carcinogenic risks to humans with the consumption of Chinese cabbage. Here we show that soil application of Mg in the range of 22.5-45 kg ha-1 to Chinese cabbage will significantly improve its nutritional qualities and alleviate the potential human health risks of heavy metals associated with Chinese cabbage consumption.
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- Ming Lu
- College of Resources and Environment, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China; Interdisciplinary Research Center for Agriculture Green Development in Yangtze River Basin, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China; Interdisciplinary Research Center for Agriculture Green Development in Yangtze River Basin, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China
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- Interdisciplinary Research Center for Agriculture Green Development in Yangtze River Basin, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China; Sugarcane Research Institute, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanning, 530007, China; Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, St Lucia, 4067, QLD, Australia
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- Interdisciplinary Research Center for Agriculture Green Development in Yangtze River Basin, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China; College of Resources and Environmental Science, National Academy of Agriculture Green Development, Key Laboratory of Plant-Soil Interactions, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China; Interdisciplinary Research Center for Agriculture Green Development in Yangtze River Basin, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China.
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- College of Resources and Environment, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China; Interdisciplinary Research Center for Agriculture Green Development in Yangtze River Basin, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China
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Sun Y, Pei Z, Zhao H, Li L, Hu Y, Zhang L, Wang L, Yang Y, Huang T, Zhan S. Data Resource Profile: China Cohort Consortium (CCC). Int J Epidemiol 2020; 49:1436-1436m. [PMID: 33188404 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyaa102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Yixin Sun
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- National Institute of Health Data Science, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Editorial Department of Chinese Journal of Epidemiology, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- National Institute of Health Data Science, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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