Maria Paula Santos

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University of Porto

Portugal

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Maria Paula Santos is an Assistant Professor at Universidade do Porto in Portugal. Her research primarily focuses on public health, physical activity, and the impact of environmental factors on health behaviors, as evidenced by her recent work on the role of residential greenness and commuting habits. She also investigates anthropometric measurements and their relationship with health outcomes in children and adolescents. Additionally, her studies explore the implications of bariatric surgery and chrono-nutrition on weight loss in patients with severe obesity.

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Access to parks, Physical Activity behaviors and obesity: an urban population study

Open Date: 2011-03-01

Close Date: 2014-08-31

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Access to parks, Physical Activity behaviors and obesity: an urban population study

Open Date: 2011-03-01

Close Date: 2014-08-01

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Objectively measured physical activity and obesity in adolescents: Study of personal, social and environmental determinants

Open Date: 2010-04-01

Close Date: 2013-09-30

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Objectively measured physical activity and obesity in adolescents: Study of personal, social and environmental determinants

Open Date: 2010-04-01

Close Date: 2013-09-01

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Physical Activity and Early life risk factors for obesity in childhood: A Longitudinal Study in Preschool Children aged 3 to 5 years-old.

Open Date: 2010-04-01

Close Date: 2013-10-01

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Ana Isabel Ribeiro

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Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina

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The role of surrounding residential greenness in healthy behaviours: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Anthropometric measurements as markers of elevated blood pressure among Portuguese children and adolescents

Em defesa da caminhada e do uso de bicicleta como deslocamento no Brasil

Relationship Among Body Mass Index, Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Blood Pressure in Portuguese Children and Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study

Weight loss in patients with severe obesity after bariatric surgery–the potential role of the chrono-nutrition, chronotype and the circadian misalignment: A study protocol of the ChronoWise prospective cohort

Differences between adolescents' and their parents' perceived benefits and barriers to actively commute to school: The PACO y PACA project

Como melhorar a mobilidade ativa em São Paulo, Brasil? Inquérito com lideranças de organizações não governamentais e com gestores públicos e privados

Results from Portugal's 2022 report card on physical activity for children and youth

Relationship between green space near schools with physical activity and body mass index in portuguese adolescents

Global variation in diabetes diagnosis and prevalence based on fasting glucose and hemoglobin A1c

Does Real-time Online Physical Exercise Improve Physical Fitness in Seniors?

Validade do questionário internacional de atividade física (IPAQ) em idosos: uma revisão integrativa da literatura

Urban Green Spaces, Greenness Exposure and Species Richness in Residential Environments and Relations with Physical Activity and BMI in Portuguese Adolescents

International Physical Activity and Built Environment Study of adolescents: IPEN Adolescent design, protocol and measures

Políticas públicas locais para promoção da atividade física das crianças nos parques públicos

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.

Neighborhood environmental factors associated with leisure walking in adolescents

Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol

Collaborators (25)

Ana Isabel Ribeiro

Delfien Van Dyck

Maria Martinez Andres

Petra Rust

Juliana Cecilio Cerqueira

Jakub Stokwiszewski

Maria Joana Carvalho

Zbigniew Kulaga

Anthony Barnett

Irene van Valkengoed

Susana Vale

James Bentham

Erica Hinckson

Peter Lund Kristensen

Julia Truthmann

Luis Sardinha

Alison Price

jorge mota

Simone Oliveira

Andreia Pizarro

Armando Raimundo

Shkelzen Cekrezi

Aristides Machado-Rodrigues

Paula Silva

Rute Santos

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