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    • Comparison of health examination survey methods in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, England, Scotland, and ... 
      Mindell, Jennifer S.; Moody, Alison; Vecino Ortiz, Andres I.; Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Frenz Yonechi, Patricia; Scholes, Shaun; González, Silvia A.; Margozzini, Paula; de Oliveira, Cesar; Sánchez Romero, Luz María; Alvarado, Andrés; Cabrera, Sebastián; Sarmiento, Olga L.; Triana, Camilo A.; Barquera, Simón (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Comparability of population surveys across countries is key to appraising trends in population health. Achieving this requires deep understanding of the methods used in these surveys to examine the extent to which the ...
    • Nutrition in Colombian pregnant women 
      Sarmiento, Olga L.; Ramirez, Andrea; Kutschbach, Belén Samper; Pinzón, Paula L.; García, Sandra; Olarte, Angie C.; Mosquera, Tatiana; Atalah, Eduardo; Ojeda, Gabriel; Forero, Yibby (2012)
      Objective The present study aimed to evaluate the nutritional status of pregnant women in Colombia and the associations between gestational BMI and sociodemographic and gestational characteristics.Design Cross-sectional ...
    • Towards a novel model for studying the nutritional stage dynamics of the Colombian population by age and ... 
      Meisel, Jose D.; Sarmiento, Olga L.; Olaya, Camilo; Lemoine, Pablo D.; Valdivia Hepp, Juan; Zarama, Roberto (Public Library Science, 2018)
      Low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) are experiencing a nutritional transition in which the burden of obesity tends to shift towards the lower-socioeconomic status (SES) group. We propose a system dynamics (SD) model ...
    • Using a system dynamics model to study the obesity transition by socioeconomic status in Colombia at the ... 
      Meisel, José D.; Ramírez, Angie M.; Esguerra, Valentina; Montes, Felipe; Stankov, Ivana; Sarmiento, Olga L.; Valdivia Hepp, Juan (BMJ, 2020)
      Objective We study the obesity transition by socioeconomic status (SES), gender and age within the Colombian urban population at the country, regional and department levels. Design The study is informed by cross-sectional ...