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- Title
Nutritional status of children with congenital heart disease.
- Authors
Magalhäes Monteiro, Flávia Paula; Leite de Araujo, Thelma; de Oliveira Lopes, Marcos Venidos; Resende Chaves, Daniel Bruno; Amorim Belträo, Beatriz; de Sousa Costa, Alice Gabrielle
- Abstract
Objective: to characterize nutritional status and variables that predict nutritional changes in children with congenital heart disease. Method: a cross-sectional study undertaken in two health institutions between January and June 2009, using a questionnaire with questions about nutrition, applied to 132 children under two years of age who had congenital heart disease. Children who had additional serious illnesses were excluded. Result: the predominant percentile values and Z scores were concentrated within the range of normal levels. The Z scores, however, presented negative variations with a deviation to the left. In the analysis of predictive factors, the occurrence of immediate and acute malnutrition was related to a decrease in skinfold thickness (decrease in subscapular skinfold thickness, while immediate malnutrition was related to a high Apgar score. Chronic malnutrition was related to female children with higher ages. Conclusion: it is evidenced that it is necessary to carry out nutritional strategies which improve prognosis, so as to widen the nursing care directed at these children.
- Subjects
CONGENITAL heart disease; MALNUTRITION; APGAR score; CHI-squared test; STATISTICAL correlation; QUESTIONNAIRES; SKINFOLD thickness; STATISTICS; LOGISTIC regression analysis; DATA analysis; MAXIMUM likelihood statistics; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; NUTRITIONAL status; DISEASE complications; CHILDREN; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem (RLAE), 2012, Vol 20, Issue 6, p1024
- ISSN
1518-8345
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S0104-11692012000600003