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Cátia Pinheiro earned her Bachelor's in Nutrition Sciences in July 2019 and began her PhD in Metabolism - Clinical and Experimental at Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto (FMUP), in September that year. She has publised three papers as first-author in journals such as British Journal of Nutrition and Nutrients, co-authored several others, and co-authored a book chapter accepted for publication by Springer in 2025. Moreover, Cátia presented research at both national and international conferences. Currently, as a PhD student at FMUP and researcher with the Nutrition & Metabolism group at RISE-Health, her work focuses on the nutritional and metabolic impacts of sustainable diets, such as vegetarian and vegan diets.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Cátia Cristina Magalhães Pinheiro

Citation names

  • Pinheiro, Cátia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
AF13-42D1-9A91
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6190-0916

Email addresses

  • catiap@live.com (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Nutrition, Dietetics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2025/06/30
Ongoing
 Programa Doutoral em Metabolismo - Clínica e Experimentação (Doutoramento)
Major in Metabolismo
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2024 - 2024
Concluded
 Sustainability of Food Production and Consumption (Sustentabilidade da Produção e do Consumo Alimentar) (Outros)
Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal
2019/07/31
Concluded
 Nutrition Sciences / Ciências da Nutrição (Licenciatura)
Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
"Association of nutritional status indicators with hospital length of stay: usefulness of components from undernutrition screening and diagnostic tools" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
2018/09/21
Concluded
 Vegetarian Diets / Alimentação Vegetariana (Outros)
Associação Portuguesa de Nutrição, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019 - Current Researcher (Research) RISE-Health, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/09/01 - Current PhD student Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, Portugal
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2019/02/15 - 2019/06/18 Estágio Curricular em Investigação Científica (272h) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2019/02/11 - 2019/04/04 Estágio Curricular em Nutrição Comunitária (200h) Câmara Municipal da Maia, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/09/20 - Current VEGGIENUTRI - Fostering sustainable diets: nutritional and metabolic status of vegetarians and omnivorous Portuguese adults
UI|BD|151504/2021
PhD Student Fellow
Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Pinheiro, Cátia; Elisa Keating; José Filipe Araújo Pinheiro; Isabella Coraini Bracchi; Guimarães, Juliana; Rita Negrão. Corresponding author: Elisa Keating. "The importance of minerals and vitamins in the maternal setting". In Handbook of Public Health Nutrition: International, National, and Regional Perspectives. Springer Cham, 2025.
    Accepted • 10.1007/978-3-031-32047-7
Conference abstract
  1. Bracchi, Isabella; Guimarães, Juliana; Pinheiro, Cátia; Rodrigues, Catarina; Coelho, Cláudia Matta; Azevedo, Rui; Pinto, Edgar; et al. "Urinary Levels of Essential Trace Elements in Pregnancy and Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes: A Prospective Study From the IOMUM Cohort". Paper presented in XXII Congress of Food and Nutrition and III International Congress of Food and Nutrition, Porto, 2023.
    Published
  2. Marques, Beatriz; Dias, Ana; Bracchi, Isabella; Guimarães, Juliana; Coelho, Cláudia; Pinheiro, Cátia; Prucha, Carmo; et al. "Exposure to naturally occurring metals during early-pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes: results from the IoMum cohort". Paper presented in 16.º Encontro de Investigação Jovem da U.Porto, Porto, 2023.
    Published
  3. Matta Coelho, Cláudia; Bracchi, Isabella; Xavier Moreira, Nara; Pinheiro, Cátia; Ferreira, Pedro; Pestana, Diogo; Barreiros-Mota, I; et al. "Iodine status and impact of supplementation in pregnant women ¿ results from Iomum Porto". Paper presented in Acta Obstet Ginecol Port. 2021;15 (supl):77-8, Porto, 2021.
  4. Matta Coelho, Cláudia; Bracchi, Isabella; Xavier Moreira, Nara; Pinheiro, Cátia; Ferreira, P; Pestana, Diogo; Barreiros-Mota, I; et al. "Iodine supplemention in Portugal ¿ survey on current clinical practices". Paper presented in 22º Congresso Português de Obstetrícia e Ginecologia, 2021.
Conference poster
  1. Pinheiro, Cátia. "Lifestyle and anthropometric characteristics of vegetarian and omnivorous populations in Portugal". Paper presented in 16th European Public Health Conference, 2023.
  2. Bracchi, Isabella; Guimarães, Juliana; Pinheiro, Cátia; Matta Coelho, Cláudia; Azevedo, Rui; Pinto, Edgar; Almeida, Agostinho; et al. "Essential trace elements status in Portuguese pregnant women and their association with neonatal outcomes: a prospective study from the IoMum cohort". Paper presented in 1st Conference of the Doctoral Program Metabolism ¿ Clinical and Experimental, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, 2022.
  3. Ferreira, Pedro; Pinheiro, Cátia; Matta Coelho, Cláudia; Guimarães, Juliana; Pereira, Gonçalo; Xavier Moreira, Nara; Cortez, Alice; et al. "The impact of dairy consumption on iodine status among supplemented and non-supplemented pregnant women in Oporto region". Paper presented in XIX Congress of Nutrition and Food of Portuguese Nutrition Association, 2020.
  4. Pinheiro, Cátia. "Iodine knowledge among Portuguese pregnant women: results from the IoMum cohort study". Paper presented in 13º Encontro de Jovens Investigadores da Universidade do Porto, 2020.
  5. Pinheiro, Cátia. "Association of nutritional status indicators with hospital length of stay: usefulness of components from undernutrition screening and diagnostic tools". Paper presented in XVIII Congresso de Nutrição de Alimentação, 2019.
Journal article
  1. Pinheiro, Cátia; Silva, Flávia; Rocha, Inês; Martins, Carina; Giesteira, Liliana; Dias, Bruna; Lucas, Ana; et al. "The Relevance of Plant-Based Diets and Micronutrient Supplementation for Body Composition: Data from the VeggieNutri Cross-Sectional Study". Nutrients 16 19 (2024): 3322. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu16193322.
    10.3390/nu16193322
  2. Isabella Bracchi; Juliana Guimarães; Catarina Isabel Rodrigues; Rui Azevedo; Cláudia Matta Coelho; Cátia Pinheiro; Juliana Morais; et al. "Essential Trace Elements Status in Portuguese Pregnant Women and Their Association with Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes: A Prospective Study from the IoMum Cohort". Biology (2023): https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/12/10/1351.
    10.3390/biology12101351
  3. Guimarães, Juliana; Bracchi, Isabella; Pinheiro, Cátia; Moreira, Nara; Coelho, Cláudia; Pestana, Diogo; Prucha, Maria; et al. "Association of 3-Phenoxybenzoic Acid Exposure during Pregnancy with Maternal Outcomes and Newborn Anthropometric Measures: Results from the IoMum Cohort Study". Toxics 11 2 (2023): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxics11020125.
    10.3390/toxics11020125
  4. Matta Coelho, C.; Guimarães, J.; Bracchi, I.; Xavier Moreira, N.; Pinheiro, C.; Ferreira, P.; Pestana, D.; et al. "Noncompliance to iodine supplementation recommendation is a risk factor for iodine insufficiency in Portuguese pregnant women: results from the IoMum cohort". Journal of Endocrinological Investigation 45 10 (2022): 1865-1874. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40618-022-01813-7.
    10.1007/s40618-022-01813-7
  5. Pinheiro, Cátia; Xavier Moreira, Nara; Ferreira, Pedro; Matta Coelho, Cláudia; Guimarães, Juliana; Pereira, Gonçalo; Cortez, Alice; et al. "Iodine knowledge is associated with iodine status in Portuguese pregnant women: results from the IoMum cohort study". British Journal of Nutrition (2021): 1-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007114521000155.
    Published • 10.1017/s0007114521000155
  6. Ferreira, Pedro; Pinheiro, Cátia; Matta Coelho, Cláudia; Guimarães, Juliana; Pereira, Gonçalo; Xavier Moreira, Nara; Cortez, Alice; et al. "The association of milk and dairy consumption with iodine status in pregnant women in Oporto region". British Journal of Nutrition 126 9 (2021): 1314-1322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000711452100009x.
    10.1017/s000711452100009x
  7. Pinheiro, Cátia; Leite, João Costa; Negrão, Rita; Keating, Elisa. "Vegetarian diets as a possible therapeutic approach to patients with metabolic syndrome". Porto Biomedical Journal 5 6 (2020): e098. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/j.pbj.0000000000000098.
    Published • 10.1097/j.pbj.0000000000000098
Online resource
  1. Pinheiro, Cátia. Corresponding author: Pinheiro, Cátia. Demystifying soy (Original: Desmistificar a soja). 2023. https://www.avp.org.pt/desmistificar-a-soja/.
  2. Pinheiro, Cátia. Corresponding author: Pinheiro, Cátia. Strategies to improve vegetal-sourced nutrients's absorption (Original: Estratégias para Melhorar a Absorção de Nutrientes de Alimentos de Origem Vegetal). 2023. https://www.avp.org.pt/melhorar-absorcao-nutrientes-alimentos-de-origem-vegetal/.
  3. Pinheiro, Cátia. Corresponding author: Pinheiro, Cátia. Is the soy milk nutritionally equivalent to cow's milk? (Original: Será a bebida vegetal nutricionalmente equivalente ao leite de vaca?). 2023. https://www.avp.org.pt/bebida-vegetal-nutricionalmente-equivalente-ao-leite/.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/11/17 VeggieNutri - Estado nutricional e perfil metabólico de adultos vegetarianos em Portugal LEGUMINA - Congresso de Alimentação Vegetariana
Associação Vegetariana Portuguesa (Porto, Portugal)
2022/11/18 VeggieNutri - Estado metabólico e nutricional de adultos vegetarianos e não vegetarianos em Portugal LEGUMINA - Congresso de Alimentação Vegetariana
Associação Vegetariana Portuguesa (Lisbon, Portugal)

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023/10/01 - Current Generation Earth PT, a training and mentoring program for environmental leadership under the wing of Associação Natureza Portugal | WWF Portugal. Member of Generation Earth Portugal working on sustainable diets.

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2023/01/23 - Current Member of the Department of Health and Nutrition of the ProVeg Portugal | Portuguese Vegetarian Association
Advisor / Consultant

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2023/08/01 - 2024/11/18 LEGUMINA - Congresso de Alimentação Vegetariana Associação Vegetariana Portuguesa

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2024/03 - 2024/08 Co-supervision of a internship for Order of Nutritionists (Co-orientação de estagiária em Estágio à Ordem dos Nutricionistas) Maria Inês Vieira (NOVA Medical School, Lisboa)
2023/02/06 - 2023/06/23 Co-supervision of an intern (Co-orientação de estagiária em Estágio Curricular) Inês Rocha (Universidade Fernando Pessoa)
2022/11/14 - 2023/06/16 Co-supervision of a internship for Order of Nutritionists (Co-orientação de estagiária em Estágio à Ordem dos Nutricionistas) Carina Martins - Estágio à Ordem dos Nutricionistas
2022/04/11 - 2022/06/23 Co-supervision of an intern (Co-orientação de estagiária em Estágio Curricular) Fávia Silva (Universidade Fernando Pessoa)