Paola Letona

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Publications

Citations

528

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Active since

2013

Affiliations

Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama(Current)

Unidad de Cirugía Cardiovascular de Guatemala

Washington University in St. Louis

Harvard University

Johns Hopkins University

Paola Letona is an author at Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama specializing in child nutrition, nutrition, and food marketing to children.

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Publications per year

2013–2023

Publications

Effectiveness of an mHealth intervention to improve the cardiometabolic profile of people with prehypertension in low-resource urban settings in Latin America: a randomised controlled trial

Adolfo Rubinstein, J. Jaime Miranda, Andrea Beratarrechea et al. · The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology · 2015 · 144 citations

Medicine, Health Promotion, Preventive Medicine +14

Effects of licensed characters on children’s taste and snack preferences in Guatemala, a low/middle income country

Paola Letona, Violeta Chacón, Christina A. Roberto et al. · International Journal of Obesity · 2014 · 83 citations · Full text

Agriculture, Child Health, Nutrition +17

Child-oriented marketing techniques in snack food packages in Guatemala

Violeta Chacón, Paola Letona, Joaquín Barnoya · BMC Public Health · 2013 · 69 citations · Full text

Agriculture, Marketing, Nutrition +15

A qualitative study of children’s snack food packaging perceptions and preferences

Paola Letona, Violeta Chacón, Christina A. Roberto et al. · BMC Public Health · 2014 · 62 citations · Full text

Agriculture, Child Health, Nutrition +14

Snack food advertising in stores around public schools in Guatemala

Violeta Chacón, Paola Letona, Eduardo Villamor et al. · Critical Public Health · 2014 · 46 citations · Full text

Public Health, Child Health, Public Health Nutrition +13

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