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- Title
Estado nutricional de crianças menores de 24 meses em Alagoas, Brasil.
- Authors
Duarte, Iasmin de A. Cavalcanti; de Albuquerque, Maria de Fátima Machado; Cavalcante, Jairo Calado; Gomes, Juliane Maria Alves; Brandão, Marcília Damasceno; Pimenteira, Ana Claire Thomaz
- Abstract
The aim of this retrospective, cross-sectional study was to compare the 1977 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the 2006 World Health Organization (WHO) growth standards to determine the nutritional status of children attending the pediatric outpatient clinic at a university hospital in Alagoas, Brazil. We reviewed 252 hospital charts of children younger than 24 months and determined the height-for-age, weight-for-age, and weight-for-height using the two standards. The sample was of low socioeconomic level and exclusively or predominantly breastfed children. The Z-scores for both standards indicated that the children in this sample were healthy, but the WHO standard was more sensitive for the detection of growth limitations in the first 6 months of life.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY weight; BREASTFEEDING; DIET; INFANT nutrition; NUTRITIONAL requirements; STATURE; SURVEYS; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; CROSS-sectional method; RETROSPECTIVE studies
- Publication
Pan American Journal of Public Health / Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2011, Vol 29, Issue 4, p277
- ISSN
1020-4989
- Publication type
Article