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Hernández Segura, Natalia Botella Juan, Lorena Amezcua Prieto, María del Carmen Morales Suárez-Varela, María Mateos Campos, Ramona Fernández Villa, Tania Ortíz Moncada, Rocío Almaraz Gómez, Ana Narciso Rufo, Alicia Ayán Pérez, Carlos Molina, Antonio José 2024-07-22T09:04:32Z 2024-07-22T09:04:32Z 2023 Healthcare, 2023, Vol. 11, Nº. 11, 1547 2227-9032 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/68944 10.3390/healthcare11111547 1547 11 Healthcare 11 2227-9032 Producción Científica The objective of this research was to study the relationship between the body weight and diet, physical activity, and other habits among freshmen students by sex, and to determine whether these habits have changed during the post-era of the COVID-19 pandemic. A serial cross-sectional study with data from 11 Spanish universities was carried out. In total, 10,096 first-year university students (73.2% female, mean age = 19.0 ± 1.5 years) completed an online self-administered questionnaire between 2012 and 2022. For some analyses, questionnaires were categorized by the year in which the survey was filled out as Before COVID-19, Lockdown, and New Normal. In total, 72.9% of participants were within the normal weight range, and 17.7% of men and 11.8% of women were overweight (p < 0.001). The students who did not meet the WHO criteria of physical activity, spent more than 7 h per day sitting, and skipped breakfast had a higher prevalence of obesity (p < 0.05). According to the period of study, the prevalence of overweight/obesity Before COVID-19 was 16.1% (95% CI: 15.4–16.9%), while in Lockdown the prevalence was significantly higher (20.2, 95% CI: 17.1–23.8) and in New Normal it was 18.9% (CI: 15.7–22.5). Moreover, the study suggests that during the Lockdown period, there was a reduction in the practice of physical activity and an increase in the prevalence of a healthy diet. For all these, it is necessary to propose public health interventions that improve the lifestyles of university students. Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad, Plan Nacional sobre Drogas - (grant 2010|145, 2013|034,2020|030) Instituto de Salud Carlos III - (grant PI16/01947) Fondo Social Europeo y Junta de Castilla y León,Consejería de Educación - (grant EDU/842/2022) application/pdf eng MDPI info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ © 2023 The authors Atribución 4.0 Internacional Overweight Obesity Obesidad Exercise Ejercicio físico COVID-19 Education Education, Higher Enseñanza superior College students - Spain Estudiantes universitarios - España Lifestyles Estilos de vida Public health Healt policy 2411.06 Fisiología del Ejercicio 3212 Salud Publica 5312.04 Educación Excess weight in relation to lifestyle habits in Spanish first-year university students: differences between pre- and post-COVID-19—A serial cross-sectional study based on uniHcos project info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/11/11/1547 SI