Risk of linear growth retardation during the first two years of life: a new approacho

In the years of life growth in length depends on nutritional and other environmental influences...

Perfil de crescimento de crianças matriculadas em programa de suplementação alimentar: II Evolução do estado nutricional de desnutridos / Growth profile of children enrolled in supplementary feeding program: II Evolution of the nutritional status of malnourished

Objetivando verificar o impacto da suplementação alimentar em desnutridos foram estudadas crianças de 12 a 72 meses beneficiários do Programa de Nutrição em Saúde em São Paulo Brasil...

[Linear growth retardation and social factors among schoolchildren from the city of Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil] / Retardo do crescimento e condições sociais em escolares de Osasco, São Paulo, Brasil.

Cases and controls were selected for this retrospective investigation of the social determinants of growth retardation, from a Height Census carried out in the 1989 school year,involving children attending the first grade of all public and private schools in Osasco (in the Greater Metropolitan Area of São Paulo, Brazil). The cases, totalling 125 children entering school aged 7-8 years old, were characterized by a height-for-age index below -2 z score of the NCHS/WHO reference. The controls, totalling 139 children entering school at the same age, were characterized by a height-for-age index above -1 z score. Socioeconomíc variables such as family income, head-of-family's level of schooling, mother's schooling, environmental sanitation, and housing conditions were significant factors associated with the stunting process. Risk of linear growth retardation tended to be higher with lower social class (odds ratio = 7.3 for sub-proletariat vs. petit bourgeois; p < 0,001 for overall trend), suggesting the biological impact of Brazil's economic slowdown during the 1980s.

Avaliação do estado nutricional e causas de abandono de crianças beneficiárias do ambulatório de desnutridos do municipio de Diadema / Assessment of nutritional status and causes of abandonment of child beneficiaries of ambulatory malnourished the municipality of Diadema

O Program Nacional de Alimentação e Nutrição Pronan mediante programas de suplementação alimentar procura garantir aos grupos biologica e socialmente vulneráveis condições minimas...