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Publications: MISS Sonia Pombo

Tan M, Pham H, Pombo-Rodrigues S, Hashem KM, Shiach A, Barakat NA ( 2025 ) . Nutritional composition and healthiness of out-of-home food and drink: cross-sectional and retrospective longitudinal analyses of best-selling menu items in the UK, 2021-2023/24 . Proceedings of The Nutrition Society vol. 84 , ( OCE3 )
Barakat NA, Davies Z, Pombo-Rodrigues S, Tan M, Hashem KM ( 2025 ) . Reformulation of children’s breakfast cereals: repeated cross-sectional analysis of products in the UK from 2020 to 2023 . Proceedings of The Nutrition Society vol. 84 , ( OCE3 )
Song J, Wang C, Pombo-Rodrigues S, MacGregor GA, Campbell NRC, He FJ ( 2025 ) . Response to Wuopio et al.: Concerns regarding the use of inappropriate statistical methods and unreliable references . Journal of Hypertension vol. 43 , ( 7 ) 1262 - 1263 .
Ong YQ, Shahar S, Haron H, Malek Rivan NF, Mohamad H, Abdul Manan M, Wan Ibadullah WZ, Michael V et al. ( 2025 ) . Strengthening salt reduction policy for Malaysia through proposed maximum salt targets of selected processed food groups . Scientific Reports vol. 15 , ( 1 )
Barakat N, Hashem K, Pombo-Rodrigues S, Davies Z ( 2025 ) . Reformulation of children’s breakfast cereals: repeated cross-sectional analysis of products in the UK from 2020 to 2023 .
Song J, Wang C, Pombo-Rodrigues S, MacGregor GA, Campbell NRC, He FJ ( 2025 ) . Formulas to estimate dietary sodium intake from spot urine lead to misleading associations with cardiovascular disease risk and mortality . Journal of Hypertension vol. 43 , ( 4 ) 681 - 689 .
Song J, Chen L, Xiong H, Ma Y, Pombo-Rodrigues S, MacGregor GA, He FJ ( 2024 ) . Blood Pressure–Lowering Medications, Sodium Reduction, and Blood Pressure . Hypertension vol. 81 , ( 11 ) e149 - e160 .
Song J, Chen L, Xiong H, Ma Y, Pombo-rodrigues S, Macgregor G, He F ( 2024 ) . DOSE-RESPONSE EFFECT OF SODIUM REDUCTION ON BLOOD PRSSURE IN TREATED HYPERTENSIVES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE META-ANALYSIS . Journal of Hypertension vol. 42 , ( Suppl 1 ) e219 - e220 .
Song J, Tan M, Wang C, Brown MK, Pombo-Rodrigues S, MacGregor GA, He FJ ( 2023 ) . Salt intake, blood pressure and cardiovascular disease mortality in England, 2003–2018 . Journal of Hypertension vol. 41 , ( 11 ) 1713 - 1720 .
Alessandrini R, Brown MK, Pombo-Rodrigues S, Bhageerutty S, He FJ, MacGregor GA ( 2021 ) . Nutritional Quality of Plant-Based Meat Products Available in the UK: A Cross-Sectional Survey . Nutrients vol. 13 , ( 12 )
Pombo-Rodrigues S, Hashem KM, Tan M, Davies Z, He FJ, MacGregor GA ( 2020 ) . Nutrition Profile of Products with Cartoon Animations on the Packaging: A UK Cross-Sectional Survey of Foods and Drinks . Nutrients vol. 12 , ( 3 )
Pombo-Rodrigues S, Hashem KM, He FJ, MacGregor GA ( 2017 ) . Salt and sugars content of breakfast cereals in the UK from 1992 to 2015 . Public Health Nutrition vol. 20 , ( 8 ) 1500 - 1512 .
MacGregor GA, He FJ, Pombo-Rodrigues S ( 2015 ) . Food and the responsibility deal: how the salt reduction strategy was derailed . The BMJ vol. 350 , ( apr28 19 )
Hashem KM, Pombo-Rodrigues S ( 2015 ) . Reducing Sodium in the Global Food Supply to Reduce Population Burden of Cardiovascular Disease . Current Cardiovascular Risk Reports vol. 9 , ( 3 )
He FJ, Pombo S, MacGregor GA ( 2014 ) . Salt reduction in England from 2003 to 2011: its relationship to blood pressure, stroke and ischaemic heart disease mortality . BMJ Open vol. 4 , Article e004549 , 1 - 7 .
Rontoyanni VG, Hall WL, Pombo-Rodrigues S, Chung R ( 2012 ) . A comparison of the changes in cardiac output and systemic vascular resistance during exercise following high-fat meals containing DHA or EPA . British Journal Of Nutrition vol. 108 , ( 3 ) 492 - 499 .
Pombo-Rodrigues S, Calame W ( 2011 ) . The effects of consuming eggs for lunch on satiety and subsequent food intake . International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition vol. 62 , ( 6 ) 593 - 599 .
Rontoyanni VG, Pombo-Rodrigues S, Chung R, Sanders TAB ( 2010 ) . The acute effects of high-fat meals enriched with EPA or DHA v. oleic acid on cardiac output and other haemodynamics at rest and during exercise in healthy young men . Proceedings of The Nutrition Society vol. 69 , ( OCE1 )