Luciana Neri Nobre|Joel Alves Lamounier|Sylvia do Carmo Castro Franceschini
Preschool children dietary patterns and associated factors
identify dietary patterns preschool children investigate determinantscrosssectional study nested cohort born 2004 2005 municipality diamantina state minas gerais brazil instrument used explore dietary patterns frequency questionnaire food consumption factor analysis used identification dietary patterns study also assessed personal socioeconomic data anthropometric measurements 232 preschoolers period july 2009 july 2010 determinants food patterns identified logistic regressionthree patterns obtained called mixed diet snack unhealthy children mothers low education likely odds ratio 380 confidence interval 95 95ci 190760 consume food mixed diet pattern less likely 031 95ci 015061 consume food snack pattern higher per capita income likely consume food unhealthy pattern 243 95ci 113524three dietary patterns identified studied population determined level maternal education per capita income