Browsing by Author "Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara"
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Cadenas Sánchez, Cristina; Artero, Enrique G.; Concha, Fernando; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Kain Berkovic, Juliana (Aula Médica Ediciones, 2015)The purpose of this study was to describe anthropometric and physical fitness characteristics of low-income Chilean preschool children and to examine whether weight status influences children's performance on fitness tests. ...
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Ivanovic Marincovich, Daniza; Ibaceta, Camila V.; Correa, Paulina B.; Orellana Zapata, Yasna; Calderón, Patricio M.; Morales, Gladys I.; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Almagià, Atilio F.; Lizana, Pablo A.; Burrows, Raquel (International Pediatric Research Foundation, 2014)Background: Head circumference (HC), the anthropometric index of both brain development and nutritional background, has been described to be significantly associated with scholastic achievement (SA). The aim of this ...
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Ivanovic Marincovich, Daniza; Llop Romero, Elena; Alvear, Jorge A.; Pérez Muñoz, Hernán; Díaz, Nora S.; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Almagià, Atilio F.; Larraín, Cristián G.; Alvarez, Joel E.; Herrera, Yilda F.; Hazbun, Elizabeth L. (2006-12)We describe subject recruitment from the University of Chile School-Age Children Twin Registry (REMEUCHI). The research aim of REMEUCHI is to quantify the impact of genetic and environmental factors on scholastic achievement ...
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Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Cerda Rioseco, Ricardo; Olivares Cortés, Sonia; Vio del Río, Fernando Tomás (SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2008-01)Background: With the aim of contributing to be Healthy Goal 2010 of reducing significantly the prevalence of childhood obestiy, we developed and implemented during 2003 and 2004, a school-based obesity prevention intervention ...
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Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Olivares Cortés, Sonia; Romo M., Marcela; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Vio del Río, Fernando Tomás; Cerda Rioseco, Ricardo; González P., Rosa; Giadalah Astudillo, Francisco Antonio; Albala Brevis, Cecilia (SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2004-11)Background: The Chilean Ministry of Health has developed a health promotion program called "Vida Chile" whose aim is to target risk factors for chronic diseases. To achieve this, school-based initiatives in nutrition and ...
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Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Concha, Fernando; Salazar Rodríguez, Gabriela; Lobos, Luz; Vio del Río, Fernando Tomás (2010)Background: In 2007, a preventive strategy for childhood obesity, that included food education and an increase in physical activity, was implemented in seven public schools located in Santiago. In four of these schools, a ...
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Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Soto Sánchez, Johana; Concha, Fernando (BioMed Central, 2018)Objectives: After categorizing preschool children into “active and low active” according to their moderate and vigor‑ ous physical activity (MVPA) in PE classes (PE), we compared these two groups within each sex and by ...
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Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Concha, F. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
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Ivanovic Marincovich, Daniza; Pérez, Hernán; Olivares Grohnert, Manuel; Díaz, Nora S.; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Ivanovic, Rodolfo M. (2004)OBJECTIVE: We determined relative effects of nutritional status, intellectual ability, exposure to mass media, and socioeconomic, sociocultural, familial, demographic, and educational variables on scholastic achievement ...
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Ivanovic Marincovich, Daniza; Rodríguez, M. del P.; Pérez, H.; Alvear, J.; Díaz, N.; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Almagiá, A.; Toro, T.; Urrutia, M. S .; Ivanovic, R. (Nature Publishing Group, 2008)Objective: To determine the impact of nutritional status in a multicausal approach of socio-economic, socio-cultural, family, intellectual, educational and demographic variables at the onset of elementary school in 1987 ...