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Avaliação antropométrica de pacientes com suspeita de erros inatos do metabolismo
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2012-09) SILVA, Francilia de Kássia Brito; OLIVEIRA, Ana Paula Pereira de; SILVA, Luiz Carlos Santana da
Objectives: to provide an anthropometric evaluation of patients suspected of having innate errors of metabolism (IEMs) and report the prevalence of nutritional disorders (malnutrition, overweight and obesity). Methods: fifty-five patients aged between 0 and 10 years were evaluated for anthropometric indices (H/A, W/A and W/H and BMI/A), in the innate errors of metabolism laboratory (LEIM) of the Federal University of Pará, using scales and an anthropometer. The data were collected using an LEIM form. Nutritional diagnosis was carried out using the Anthro and Anthro Plus programs and the SPSS statistics package. Results: the patients attended were mostly aged between seven months and nine years. The main symptoms were delayed neuropsychomotor development and frequent infections. As for the nutritional status, a deficit of 23.7% was observed in weight for age, a deficit of 50.9% in height for age, and the prevalence of overweight and obesity was 15.4% according to weight for height, and 25,1% according to body mass index for age. Conclusions: the nutritional status of the patients was inadequate and, given the absence of a diagnosis of IEMs, the factors involved should be investigated more thoroughly.
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Preditores da desnutrição infantil em populações ribeirinhas do Pará
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2010) OLIVEIRA, Ana Paula Pereira de; MOURA, Erly Catarina de; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5136057288998726
Objective: To identify under nutrition’s determinants among children aged less than two years old, living close the rivers of Pará state (Brazil). Methods: Survey was conducted among 203 children form four river’s community: Aveiro (Southeast), Barcarena (Metropolitan), Cametá (Northeast) and Santarém (Low Amazon) by face to face interviews with the responsible for the child. The dependent variable was under nutrition, according to length to age less than -1 z-score following the recent World Health recommendation. Dependent variables were characteristics of household, family leader, child’s mother, pre-natal, family’s food pattern, child’s birth, mother’s care and child’s demography. The prevalence of under nutrition was calculated according to basic, intermediate and immediate indicators considering the distance between variables of the indicators and the outcome. Multilevel analysis was performed by logistic regression taking into account the hierarchy between indicators and under nutrition, according p<0.05. Results: The under nutrition prevalence reached 35.0% of the studied children, varying from 28.6% in Aveiro to 43.1% in Barcarena. The variables associated to under nutrition were low birth weight and aging. The child’s age was the under nutrition predictor: the likelihood of a child aged between 12 and 17 months old to present under nutrition was 3.4 times bigger than a child aged less than six months old, raising to five times for children aged between 18 and 23 months old. Conclusion: At river’s population, the under nutrition among children less than two years old still a severe health nutrition problem, probably because the long exposition time to the environmental risk factors.