Evolução intergeracional da estatura no Estado de Pernambuco, Brasil, entre 1945 e 2006: 2 - aspectos analíticos

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<b>Nutritional status of children under five years living in area of social vulnerability of Campina Grande, Paraíba State

“…These circumstances have been explained by the sharing of genetic, socioeconomic and environmental characteristics (Addo et al, 2013;Araújo et al, 2010;Felisbino-Mendes et al, 2014;Figueroa Pedraza et al, 2013;Sichieri et al, 2010;Symonds et al, 2013). Current analysis revealed a strong association between birth weight and the anthropometric nutritional status of children, with similar results in previous studies, such as studies based on municipal or state population data (Jesus, Castelão, Vieira, Gomes, & Vieira, 2014;Figueiroa et al, 2012;Rissin et al, 2011) and in populations marked by social inequity Lang et al, 2011;Silveira et al, 2010). This association, verified for several anthropometric indexes (Figueiroa et al, 2012;Figueroa Pedraza et al, 2013;Horta et al, 2013;Jesus et al, 2014;Lang et al, 2011;Rissin et al, 2011;Silveira et al, 2010), shows two perspectives: i) children with low birth weight, regardless of compensatory growth in the first three months of life, continue to have weigh rates below those of children with adequate birth weight, contributing to increased vulnerability to infectious processes and other negative postnatal factors, which are added to the prenatal growth programming (Motta, Silva, Araújo, Lira, & Lima, 2005); ii) low birth weight may result in adaptation mechanisms such as catch-up growth and hormonal disorders that might predispose the child to the development of overweight / obesity (Chrestani, Santos, Horta, Dumith, & Dode, 2013;Motta el al., 2005;Rossi & Vasconcelos, 2010).…”

“…In spite of evidence in determining the nutritional status of children by environmental factors, affecting malnutrition and overweight rates (Araújo et al, 2010;Figueiroa, Alves, Lira, & Batista Filho, 2012;Lima et al, 2010;Monteiro et al, 2009;Rissin et al, 2011;Sichieri, Barbosa & Moura, 2010;Felisbino-Mendes, Villamor, & VelasquezMelendez,, 2014), individual factors may demonstrate strong association, especially when adjusted for environmental conditions and lifestyles with these outcomes (Araújo et al, 2010;FelisbinoMendes et al, 2014;Sichieri et al, 2010). Overweight and stunting are nutritional extremes that may coexist in families in developing countries.…”

Crescimento linear das crianças assistidas em creches públicas do município de Campina Grande, Paraíba

“…The present study results emphasize that height deficit is favored in environments with worse socioeconomic and environmental conditions. 23 . The associations of several negative conditions of the studied children's socioeconomic situation with low height also recommend the need of advancing with improvements in the acquisitive power of the family, in the mother's schooling level, in health care, and sanitation to obtain gains in the malnutrition decline 1,2,5 .…”

“…We also verified the significant impact that birth weight, mother's height, and residence area had on the height/age index variation. The interference that birth weight has on physical growth has been continuously seen in literature, thus showing an inverse relation between the two factors 12,[23][24][25][26][27] . In this casuistic, low birth weight reflects the restriction of intrauterine growth and makes children more vulnerable to postnatal factors that might result in the development of diseases 28 .…”

On the Gravity of the Acute Rheumatic Fever in Children from Pernambuco, Brazil

“…For this purpose, in Pernambuco, recent research on the behavior of the height of our children found that there was an increase in this variable from 1945 to 2006, revealing better feeding conditions in the early years of life, since the height is the most faithful ecological parameter that allows the genotypic growth factor to express freely in this stage of life 10 .…”