Carla Lopes

Research interests

Publications

• Burdens of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar-sweetened beverages in 184 countries

  Nature Medicine · 2025 · 10.1038/s41591-024-03345-4

• Sugar-sweetened beverage intakes among adults between 1990 and 2018 in 185 countries

  Nature Communications · 2023 · 10.1038/s41467-023-41269-8

• Incident type 2 diabetes attributable to suboptimal diet in 184 countries

  Nature Medicine · 2023 · 10.1038/s41591-023-02278-8

• Global dietary quality in 185 countries from 1990 to 2018 show wide differences by nation, age, education, and urbanicity

  Nature Food · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00594-9

• Potassium Intake and Blood Pressure: A Dose‐Response Meta‐Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

  Journal of the American Heart Association · 2020 · 10.1161/jaha.119.015719

• Exposure assessment of Portuguese population to multiple mycotoxins: The human biomonitoring approach

  International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health · 2019 · 10.1016/j.ijheh.2019.06.010

• National Food, Nutrition, and Physical Activity Survey of the Portuguese General Population (2015-2016): Protocol for Design and Development

  JMIR Research Protocols · 2018 · 10.2196/resprot.8990

• Bidirectional association between parental child-feeding practices and body mass index at 4 and 7 y of age

  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · 2016 · 10.3945/ajcn.115.120824

• Folate and folic acid in the periconceptional period: recommendations from official health organizations in thirty-six countries worldwide and WHO

  Public Health Nutrition · 2015 · 10.1017/s1368980015000555

• Systematic review of saturated fatty acids on inflammation and circulating levels of adipokines

  Nutrition Research · 2013 · 10.1016/j.nutres.2013.07.002

• The influence of early feeding practices on fruit and vegetable intake among preschool children in 4 European birth cohorts

  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · 2013 · 10.3945/ajcn.112.057026

• A Review of Methods to Assess Parental Feeding Practices and Preschool Children's Eating Behavior: The Need for Further Development of Tools

  Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2012 · 10.1016/j.jand.2012.06.356

• Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between serum uric acid and metabolic syndrome

  Endocrine · 2012 · 10.1007/s12020-012-9629-8

• Food Patterns According to Sociodemographics, Physical Activity, Sleeping and Obesity in Portuguese Children

  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 2010 · 10.3390/ijerph7031121

• Salt intake and gastric cancer risk according to Helicobacter pylori infection, smoking, tumour site and histological type

  British Journal of Cancer · 2010 · 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605993

• Adherence to the Mediterranean diet and fresh fruit intake are associated with improved asthma control

  Allergy · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1398-9995.2008.01665.x

• Physical training does not increase allergic inflammation in asthmatic children

  European Respiratory Journal · 2008 · 10.1183/09031936.00171707

• Intake and Adipose Tissue Composition of Fatty Acids and Risk of Myocardial Infarction in a Male Portuguese Community Sample

  Journal of the American Dietetic Association · 2007 · 10.1016/j.jada.2006.11.008

• Fruit and vegetable consumption and gastric cancer by location and histological type: case–control and meta-analysis

  European Journal of Cancer Prevention · 2007 · 10.1097/01.cej.0000236255.95769.22

• How different is the dietary pattern in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis patients?

  Clinical Nutrition · 2006 · 10.1016/j.clnu.2006.01.027

• Central obesity as a major determinant of increased high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in metabolic syndrome

  International Journal of Obesity · 2005 · 10.1038/sj.ijo.0803035

• Investigating the effect of nonparticipation using a population-based case–control study on myocardial infarction

  Annals of Epidemiology · 2004 · 10.1016/j.annepidem.2003.09.013

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