Dietary Patterns in European and Brazilian Adolescents: Comparisons and Associations with Socioeconomic Factors Aparecida Borges, Camila Slater, Betzabeth Santaliestra-Pasías, Alba María Mouratidou, Theodora Huybrechts, Inge Widhalm, Kurt Gottrand, Frédéric Manios, Yannis Jiménez Pavón, David Valtueña, Jara Donne, Cinzia le Marcos, Ascensión Molnar, Dénes Castillo Garzón, Manuel J. Henauw, Stefaan de Moreno, Luis A. Dietary patterns Adolescents Socioeconomic status Factor analysis Associations between dietary patterns (DP) and socioeconomic factors have been little explored in adolescents. The aim of this study was to identify DP in European and Brazilian adolescents and to investigate their associations with a range of socioeconomic indicators. Adolescents from the HELENA-study and the Household Budget Survey were analyzed. Factor analysis was used to obtain DP. Linear regression was used to examine the association between DP and SES. In Europeans, the Western DP was associated with low education of the mother, high socioeconomic status (boys), older age (boys), and living in cities of the Northern Europe; in Brazilians, the Western DP was associated with high secondary education of the mother, high socioeconomic status and living in Southern areas of the country. The Traditional European DP, in both genders, was associated with high secondary education of the mother and inversely associated with a high socioeconomic status; the Traditional Brazilian DP, was associated with university level education of the mother and older age (boys). The association between DP and socioeconomic factors is relevant for the understanding of food-related practices and highlight the importance of performing a complete assessment of the socioeconomic influence in adolescent’s DP from developed and developing countries. 2018-03-02T12:32:31Z 2018-03-02T12:32:31Z 2018 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Aparecida Borges, C.; et al. Dietary Patterns in European and Brazilian Adolescents: Comparisons and Associations with Socioeconomic Factors. Nutrients, 10(1): 57 (2018). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/49784] 2072-6643 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/49784 10.3390/nu10010057 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License MDPI