Leandro Teixeira Cacau

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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal)
Birthplace: Brazil

graduation at Nutrição from Centro Universitário Estácio do Ceará (2019) and doctorate at Nutrição em Saúde Pública from Universidade de São Paulo (2024). Has experience in Nutrition (Source: Lattes Curriculum)

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Scholarships in Brazil

Ongoing (most recent)

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The Nova Screener is a tool designed to assess food consumption according to the level of food processing in adults. Based on the Nova Screener, two scores can be generated: the Nova Score for Ultra-Processed Foods (Nova-UPF) and the Nova Score for Whole and Minimally Processed Foods (Nova-WPF). These scores are promising tools for evaluating and monitoring healthy diets in epidemiologica…
Development of the Nova screener to assess food consumption according to the level of food processing for children under five years of age, BP.IC
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The Nova screener is an easy-to-operate and low-cost instrument designed to assess food consumption according to the degree of food processing in adults. Through it, it is possible to generate two diet quality scores: the Nova ultra-processed foods score (Nova-UPF) and the Nova minimally processed whole plant foods score (Nova-WPF), which serve as promising indicators for use in the evalu…
Diet quality scores based on the Nova classification: innovation in monitoring healthy and sustainable diets and predicting the risk of non-communicable chronic diseases, BP.PD

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The evaluation of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Markers (CVDs) is a tool in the identification of asymptomatic atherosclerotic processes. Coronary Artery Calcium score (CAC) and carotid intima-media thickness (EMIC) are tests used to determine the presence of subclinical Atherosclerosis. One of the risk factors associated with CVD is diet, and therefore, ways of assessing diet quality are i…
Progression of subclinical Atherosclerosis markers and a priori eating patterns: an analysis to the longitudinal study in adult health (ELSA-Brazil), BP.DD

Scholarships abroad

Completed (most recent)

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Introduction: A sustainable diet is defined as the combination of a food system that promotes health for the population, reducing the environmental impacts caused by food production and respecting the limits of the planet. Recently, the Planetary Health Diet (PHD) was proposed as a model of diet that follows these characteristics. PHD was thought of as a way to improve human health, preve…
Association between an index based on planetary health diet and cardiovascular risk outcomes: analysis of epidemiological studies, BE.EP.DD

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2 / 2	Ongoing scholarships in Brazil
1 / 1	Completed scholarships in Brazil
1 / 1	Completed scholarships abroad
4 / 4	All Scholarships

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