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Low diet quality during childhood and adolescence is associated with adverse health outcomes later in life. Diet quality is generally poor in American youth, particularly in youth of low socioeconomic status. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the primary safety net to help low-income households afford a healthy diet. Yet self-selection into the program creates challenges in estimating the relationship between SNAP and diet outcomes.

This study examined how the increase in SNAP benefits during the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) affected food security and diet quality in low-income youth.

This analysis used a difference-in-differences design and data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2007-2008 to 2011-2012 waves.

The sample included children and adolescents aged 2 to 18 years with household income ≤250% of the Federal Poverty Line. Food security and diet outcomes in SNAP-eligible youth (n= 2,797) were examined, with children in nearly SNAP-elithis did not differ by age range.

The increase in SNAP benefits during ARRA did not significantly impact food security or diet quality in low-income children and adolescents. Additional research to better understand how SNAP benefits impact dietary choice is warranted.

The increase in SNAP benefits during ARRA did not significantly impact food security or diet quality in low-income children and adolescents. Additional research to better understand how SNAP benefits impact dietary choice is warranted.

The Final Rule of the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act, published in 2016, required school districts participating in the federal Child Nutrition Programs to update their local wellness policies to reflect the more stringent requirements effective June 30,2017.

Our aim was to investigate whether Wisconsin school wellness policies (SWPs) were updated after the Final Rule, measure policy quality change, and describe mechanisms of successful policy change.

From 2016 through 2018, an explanatory sequential mixed-methods study examined change in SWP quality before and after the Final Rule was published. SWPs were collected in 2 waves reflecting policies written before and updated after the July 21, 2016 publication of the Final Rule. Semi-structured key-informant interviews were conducted with districts that demonstrated significant policy improvement.

Quantitative analysis examined 442 Wisconsin school districts' SWPs. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 school districts that demonstrated signife districts showed policy quality improvement in most areas. Interviews with successful districts indicate the common need for empowered leaders and supportive environments to facilitate culture change around student wellness.

Fewer than half of Wisconsin school districts updated their policies in the 10 months after the Final Rule was published. mTOR inhibition SWP from these districts showed policy quality improvement in most areas. Interviews with successful districts indicate the common need for empowered leaders and supportive environments to facilitate culture change around student wellness.

The nutritional status of women in the preconception period is of paramount importance due to its role in reproduction.

Our aim was to assess overall diet quality during the preconception period and its association with infant birth weight adjusted for gestational age (GA).

This is an observational longitudinal cohort of Hispanic people living in the United States.

Data are from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos baseline (2008-2011) and second clinic examinations (2014-2017). Included are the first 497 singleton live-born infants among the 2,556 women (younger than 45 years) who attended the second visit. Field sites were located in Miami, FL; Bronx, NY; Chicago, IL; and San Diego, CA, and represent individuals with heritage from Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Central and South America.

Diet assessment included two 24-hour recalls from baseline. The 2010 Healthy Eating Index (HEI-2010) was used to measure diet quality, with higher scores indicating better qualit tertile of the HEI-2010 score was associated with a higher birth-weight z score and birth weight for GA percentile, and the continuous HEI-2010 score was only associated with birth weight for GA percentile. Preconception body mass index (calculated as kg/m

) did not modify these associations.

Overall diet quality, as measured by the HEI-2010, in the preconception period is associated with infant birth weight adjusted for GA among US Hispanic and Latina women.

Overall diet quality, as measured by the HEI-2010, in the preconception period is associated with infant birth weight adjusted for GA among US Hispanic and Latina women.

Emerging research indicates that eating timing may influence dietary intake and metabolic health. However, studies to date have not examined the association of multiple measures of eating timing with both dietary intake and metabolic health in adults with overweight and obesity.

To examine the association of multiple measures of eating timing with dietary intake (ie, dietary composition, diet quality, and eating frequency) and metabolic health (ie, body composition and cardiometabolic risk).

This is a cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from a weight loss and maintenance intervention collected from May 2015 to January2018.

Participants were women with overweight or obesity who were dependents of active duty and retired military personnel (N= 229; mean ± standard error, BMI= 34.7 ± 0.4 kg/m

, age= 40.9 ± 0.7 years). The study was conducted at military installations in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Colorado, and Kentucky.

Eating timing variables examined included daily eating interval (d support for the mechanistic targeting of eating timing in behavioral interventions aimed at improving dietary intake and body composition.

These findings lend support for the mechanistic targeting of eating timing in behavioral interventions aimed at improving dietary intake and body composition.

To co-register conventional computed tomography angiography (CTA), with exvivo micro-computed tomography (microCT) and histology of popliteal atherosclerotic plaques. Improving the non-invasive imaging capabilities may be valuable to advance patient care with peripheral arterial obstructive disease towards lesion and individual based treatment.

In this prospective observational study, 12 popliteal arteries from 11 symptomatic patients who had undergone transfemoral amputations for chronic limb threatening ischaemia and who had pre-operative CTA, were analysed exvivo by microCT and histology. A total of 353 histological cross sections were co-registered with microCT and CTA, and classified as lipid rich (LP, n=26), fibrous (FP, n=80), or calcific (CP, n=247) plaques. CTA and microCT plaque density was calculated in 791 regions of interest as Hounsfield units (HU).

CTA and microCT could identify plaque components that were confirmed by histology such as fibrous tissue (FP), lipid pool/core (LP), and calcification (CP).