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Article History

Received: 18 May 2020

Accepted: 3 December 2020

First Online: 14 December 2020

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Argentina (Encuesta Nacional de Factores de Riesgo, 2013): All procedures were approved by an internal committee from the Ministry of Health and all procedures are in line with the law No. 17,622 on statistical secrecy, Brazil (Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde, 2013); All procedures performed in the original study involving human participants were approved by the <i>Comissão Nacional de Ética em Pesquisa</i> (CONEP: 10853812.7.0000.0008), Chile (Encuesta Nacional de Salud, 2016–2017): All procedures were approved by the ethics committee of the Ministry of Health and from the <i>Ponticifícia Universidad Católica de Chile</i>, Colombia (Encuesta Nacional de la Situación Nutricional, ENSIN-2010): All procedures performed in the original study involving human participants were approved by the ethics committee of the <i>Institudo Nacional de Salud</i> according to the minute of April 10, 2010, Ecuador (Encuesta Nacional de Salud y Nutrición, 2012): All procedures were approved by an internal committee by the Ministry of Health, Peru (Encuesta Nacional de Hogares, Módulo de Mediciones Antropométricas, 2011): All procedures were approved by the <i>Instituto Nacional de Salud</i> from the Ministry of Health, and Uruguay (Encuesta Nacional de Salud, 2014): All procedures were approved by an internal committee from the <i>Área Economía de la Salud</i> of the Ministry of Public Health. All participants from all studies provided written informed consent to participate in the studies.

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: The authors report no conflicts of interest.