Browsing by Subject "MET"

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    Comparison of diet quality between young children and adolescents in the Mediterranean basin and the influence of life habits
    (Arán ediciones, 2019) Giménez Blas, Nuria; Latorre, José Antonio; Martínez Bebia, Manuel; Olea Serrano, Fátima; Mariscal Arcas, Miguel; Tecnología de Alimentos, Nutrición y Bromatología
    Introduction: the dietary intake patterns of children should be monitored because of their influence on health in adulthood. It is now widely accepted that childhood nutrition is linked to specific diseases such as obesity and to risk factors for cardiovascular disease in adulthood. Therefore, knowledge of dietary intake during childhood may be useful to identify possible risk factors for disease in adulthood. The main focus of research into children’s diets has been the contribution of macronutrients and micronutrients. Objective: several indices have been developed for assessing the diet quality of previously defined population groups. The aim of the present study was to compare the nutritional status of Andalusian children and adolescents and examine the relationship between their diet quality and socio-demographic or lifestyle factors. Results and conclusions: the food intake of the younger children in this study was closer to RDIs compared with the adolescents, who generally reported a lower energy supply in their diet than the recommended. The mean (SD) diet quality score was 12.1 (1.9) for the younger children (6-9 years) and 9.4 (3.2) for the older group (10-17 years), a statistically significant difference. A good correlation was found between energy intake (MJ/kg body weight) and estimated energy (MET MJ/kg body weight).
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    Estimación del gasto energético habitual como medida de la actividad física
    (2023-10-30) Vaquero-Cristóbal, Raquel; González-Gálvez, Noelia; Facultades, Departamentos, Servicios y Escuelas::Departamentos de la UMU::Actividad Física y Deporte; Facultad de Ciencias del Deporte; Departamento de Actividad F�sica y del Deporte
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    Huevo MET 02
    (Edit.UM. Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia, 2022) Ubero Pascal, Nicolás; Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física
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    Testing nonmonotonicity in health preferences
    (Sage Publications, 2024-01) Abellán Perpiñán, José María; Martínez Pérez, Jorge Eduardo; Pinto Prades, José Luis; Sánchez Martínez, Fernando Ignacio; Economía Aplicada
    Objective. The main aim of this article is to test monotonicity in life duration. Previous findings suggest that, for poor health states, longer durations are preferred to shorter durations up to some threshold or maximum endurable time (MET), and shorter durations are preferred to longer ones after that threshold. Methods. Monotonicity in duration is tested through 2 ordinal tasks: choices and rankings. A convenience sample (n = 90) was recruited in a series of experimental sessions in which participants had to rank-order health episodes and to choose between them, presented in pairs. Health episodes result from the combination of 7 EQ-5D-3L health states and 5 durations. Monotonicity is tested comparing the percentage rate of participants whose preferences were monotonic with the percentage of participants with nonmonotonic preferences for each health state. In addition, to test the existence of preference reversals, we analyze the fraction of people who switch their preference from rankings to choices. Results. Monotonicity is frequently violated across the 7 EQ-5D health states. Preference patterns for individuals describe violations ranging from almost 49% with choices to about 71% with rankings. Analysis performed by separate states shows that the mean rates of violations with choices and ranking are about 22% and 34%, respectively. We also find new evidence of preference reversals and some evidence—though scarce—of transitivity violations in choices Conclusions. Our results show that there is a medium range of health states for which preferences are nonmonotonic. These findings support previous evidence on MET preferences and introduce a new ‘‘choice-ranking’’ preference reversal. It seems that the use of 2 tasks with a similar response scale may make preference reversals less substantial, although it remains important and systematic.