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Joana Araújo

Joana Araújo

Integrated Member (PhD)

Research Line: L1 - Life Course Research and Healthy Ageing
Labs: Causes and Prevention of Obesity and its Consequences
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Joana Araújo graduated in Nutritional Sciences at the Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences in 2008, and completed a Master in Public Health in 2010 and a PhD in Public Health in 2016 at the University of Porto Medical School (Portugal).

From Oct 2017 to May 2019, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC, studying obesity and cardiometabolic health, and causes of unintentional weight loss in young to middle-aged adults.

Presently, she is a PhD Researcher at ITR – Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health, integrated in the Lab Causes and prevention of obesity and its consequences, and she is funded by the 2nd edition of the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEEC) from FCT (CEECIND/01271/2018).

Her research areas of interest are the nutritional and obesity epidemiology, and in particular the life course approach to obesity and cardiometabolic factors.

Articles

2020
Metabolically healthy overweight in young adulthood: is it a matter of duration and degree of overweight?

Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis, 2020 Oct 9;S0939-4753(20)30439-7. doi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2020.10.001. Online ahead of print.

2020
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC): (...) , , Henriques A , Ramos E , Araujo J , Lunet N , (...)
Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants.

Lancet, 2020 Nov 7;396(10261):1511-1524. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31859-6.

2020
Craveiro V , Araujo J , Santos A , Ramos E
Vitamin D – from the pro-hormone to biological actions.

Acta Port Nutrição, 2020; 19(2019):50-4. doi:10.21011/apn.2019.1909.

2019
Ribeiro C , Mendes V , Peleteiro B , , Araujo J , Aggerbeck M, Annesi-Maesano I, Sarigiannis D , Ramos E
Association between the exposure to phthalates and adiposity: A meta-analysis in children and adults.

Environ Res, 2019 Oct 1;179(Pt A):108780. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2019.108780. [Epub ahead of print]

2019
Ferreira D , Severo M , Araujo J , Barros H , , Ramos E
Association between insulin resistance and haematological parameters: a cohort study from adolescence to adulthood.

Diabetes Metab Res Rev, 2019 Jun 17:e3194. doi: 10.1002/dmrr.3194. [Epub ahead of print]

2019
Decreases in adiposity reduce the risk of hypertension: Results from a prospective cohort of adolescents

Prev Med, 2019 Mar;120:1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.12.017. Epub 2018 Dec 27.

2019
Araujo J , Ramos E , Mishra GD , Severo M
The use of weight adjusted for height rather than body mass index to assess growth trajectory: Results from a population-based cohort.

Stat Med, 2019 Feb 28;38(5):855-865. doi: 10.1002/sim.8007. Epub 2018 Oct 18.

2019
Carvalhais A , Araujo J , Natal Jorge R , Bø K
Urinary incontinence and disordered eating in female elite athletes.

J Sci Med Sport, 2019 Feb;22(2):140-144. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2018.07.008. Epub 2018 Jul 20.

2018
Craveiro V , Cabral M , Araujo J , Falcão H , Guimarães JT , Ramos E
Association of Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentration with Pulmonary Function in Young Adults.

Nutrients, 2018 Nov 11;10(11). pii: E1728. doi: 10.3390/nu10111728.

2018
Sleep duration and physical fighting involvement in late adolescence.

J Public Health (Berl.): From Theory to Practice, 2018, pp. 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-018-0955-z

2018
Cruz F , Ramos E , Lopes C , Araujo J
Tracking of food and nutrient intake from adolescence into early adulthood.

Nutrition, 2018 Mar 27;55-56:84-90. doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2018.02.015. [Epub ahead of print]

2018
Oliveira A , Araujo J , Severo M , Correia D , Ramos E , Torres D , Lopes C , by the IAN-AF Consortium.
Prevalence of general and abdominal obesity in Portugal: comprehensive results from the National Food, nutrition and physical activity survey 2015-2016.

BMC Public Health, 2018 May 11;18(1):614. doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-5480-z.

2017
Life course path analysis of total and central adiposity throughout adolescence on adult blood pressure and insulin resistance.

Nutr Metab Cardiovas Dis, 2017 Apr;27(4):360-365. doi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2016.12.007. Epub 2016 Dec 24.

2017
Duration and degree of adiposity: Effect on cardiovascular risk factors at early adulthood.

Int J Obes (Lond), 2017 Oct;41(10):1526-1530. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2017.133. Epub 2017 Jun 6.

2017
Magalhães A , Severo M , Autran R , Araujo J , Santos P , Pina MF , Ramos E
Validation of a Single Question for the Evaluation of Physical Activity in Adolescents.

Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab., 2017 Mar 2:1-27. doi: 10.1123/ijsnem.2016-0276. [Epub ahead of print]

2017
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). , Henriques A , Lunet N , Azevedo A , Ramos E , Araujo J
Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants.

Lancet, 2017 Jan 7;389(10064):37-55. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31919-5. Epub 2016 Nov 16.

2016
Trajectories of total and central adiposity throughout adolescence and cardiometabolic factors in early adulthood.

Int J Obes (Lond), 2016;40(12):1899-1905.

2016
Cabral M , Araujo J , Teixeira J , Martins S , Barros H , Guimarães JT , Lopes C , Ramos E
Vitamin D levels and cardiometabolic risk factors in Portuguese adolescents.

Int J Cardiol, 2016 ;220:501-7.

2016
Sleep duration and blood pressure: a longitudinal analysis from early to late adolescence.

J Sleep Res, 2016 Jun 2. doi: 10.1111/jsr.12433. [Epub ahead of print]

Books

Book Chapters

Notices/Letters to the Editor

2019
Araujo J , Ramos E , Mishra GD , Severo M
Response to comments on "The use of weight adjusted for height rather than body mass index to assess growth trajectory: Results from a population-based cohort".

Stat Med, 2019 Jul 10;38(15):2903-2904. doi: 10.1002/sim.8110.

Reports