O estado nutricional de crianças Yanomami do Médio Rio Negro, Amazonia / Yanomami children's nutritional status in the middle Rio Negro, Brazilian Amazônia
Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop
; 35(3): 233-236, maio-jun. 2002.
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in Portuguese
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RESUMO
The nutritional status of 290 Yanomami Amerindians children, from birth to about six year-olds, living in the middle Rio Negro, Brazilian Amazonia, has been studied in 1998 and 1999 using the weight-for-height. All of them were of low stature. Twenty malnourished (7), defined as below two standard deviations of NCHS' data, have been observed. Five of them showed a severe malnutrition (= -3 SD). Differences appeared between the communities, however without evident connection with the practices of these groups and their contacts with the outside. These data indicate a lack of scarcity in this population who preserves a traditional way of life and disposes of a large space for gathering and hunting. The cases of malnutrition are probably a conjoined consequence of infectious attacks in children and of a special bad status in their group.
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Main subject:
Nutritional Status
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Protein-Energy Malnutrition
Limits:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
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Infant, Newborn
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Brazil
Language:
Portuguese
Journal:
Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop
Journal subject:
Tropical Medicine
Year:
2002
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
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France
Institution/Affiliation country:
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement/FR
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Instituto pelo Desenvolvimento Sanitário em Meio Tropical/BR