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- Title
AVALIAÇÃO NUTRICIONAL EM CRIANÇAS E ADOLESCENTES COM CIRROSE: ESTUDO TRANSVERSAL DE DUAS SÉRIES.
- Authors
de Albuquerque Wilasco, Maria Inês; da Silveira, Themis Reverbel; Reis Schneider, Ana Claudia; Santetti, Daniele; Uribe-Cruz, Carolina; Leal Dornelles, Cristina Toscani; Borges Pinto, Raquel; Gonçalves Vieira, Sandra Maria; Sueno Goldani, Helena Ayako; Oscar Kieling, Carlos
- Abstract
Introduction: Cirrhosis is characterized by a chronic alteration of the liver parenchyma that often leads to malnutrition in children and adolescents. Nutritional intervention should be performed early, requiring careful follow-up of these patients. Objectives: To compare the nutritional assessment of cirrhotic pediatric patients performed in two separate periods of time. Methods: This research used two different databases originated from studies conducted with pediatric patients with cirrhosis. After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, 67 children and adolescents were assessed in two series of tests performed within a time range of approximately a decade. Both series had standard deviation score for height-for-age (SDS-H/A), standard deviation score for triceps skinfold-for-age and (SDS-TSF/A), calculated according to the standards established by the World Health Organization. Disease severity was evaluated by the Pediatric End-stage Liver Disease (PELD)/Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) and by the Child-Pugh score. Results were considered significant at p < 0.05. Results: The present study did not find any statistically significant difference for the nutritional status of the researched subjects in any of the series. In the first series, 22.6% of patients were undernourished, compared to 27.8% in the second one (p = 0.955). Conclusions: We can conclude that in both series of tests conducted with an interval of about a decade from each other the percentage of malnutrition and the severity of cirrhosis remained stable.
- Publication
Clinical & Biomedical Research, 2016, Vol 36, Issue 4, p206
- ISSN
2357-9730
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4322/2357-9730.67807