Nutritional Status of Children with Cerebral Palsy
Journal of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine
;
: 42-47, 2011.
Artigo
em Inglês
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-724388
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To determine the nutritional status of children with cerebral palsy (CP) and to compare their anthropometric and functional indices.METHOD:
Seventy children with cerebral palsy, were at class I (12), II (17), III (18), IV (9) and V (14) on Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS). They varied by age from 25 to 130 months with a mean of 48 months, and consisted of spastic diplegic cerebral palsy (30), quadriplegia (28), triplegia (3), hemiplegia (4), athetoid (4) and hypotonia (1). Evaluation of weight, height, subcutaneous fat thickness, brachial circumference, Body Mass Index (BMI), level of albumin, lymphocyte and blood ferritn were conducted. To identify the factors affecting nutritional status, dietary status and symptoms of dysphagia were investigated.RESULTS:
Low BMI percentile was in 23 children (32.9%) and obese condition in 3 children (4.3%). Low BMI percentile tends to frequently observed in groups III, IV, V of GMFCS. BMI percentile with subcutaneous fat thickness, Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM) score were significantly related (p<0.05). Seen from the symptom of dysphagia, low BMI percentile was correlated with decreased tongue motion (p<0.05).CONCLUSION:
Cerebral palsy children with lower GMFM score, decreased tongue motion were significantly related with low BMI percentile. Subcutaneous fat thickness can be useful tool for evaluation of malnutrition of cerebral palsy children.
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Índice:
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Assunto principal:
Quadriplegia
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Língua
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Linfócitos
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Transtornos de Deglutição
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Índice de Massa Corporal
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Paralisia Cerebral
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Estado Nutricional
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Desnutrição
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Gordura Subcutânea
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Hemiplegia
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo prognóstico
Limite:
Criança
/
Humanos
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Journal of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine
Ano de publicação:
2011
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
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