Tendência secular de crescimento em escolares de Paulínia, São Paulo-Brasil (1979/80 - 1993/94)

Abstract

Increments in height and weight during this period are an indicator of development on the economical and health levels. A positive secular trend was also observed in developed countries after the 2nd World War and in the Brazilian people.

Trends in weight, height, BMI and obesity in schoolchildren from Santa Rosa (Argentina), 1990–2005/07

“…Evidence of secular growth changes in Latin America has been mainly documented in Venezuela (Lo ´pez-Contreras Blanco et al, 1989), Me ´xico (Malina et al, 2008), Brazil (Castilho & Lahr, 2001;Marmo et al, 2004) and Chile (Kain et al, 2002;Lizana et al, 2011). In Argentina, studies of secular change have focused primarily on adult height and, with the exception of a study in poor urban children (Lomaglio et al, 1997), the country lacks serial data to analyse growth trends in height, weight, BMI or obesity.…”

Tendência secular do crescimento em estatura em Blumenau-Brasil e sua associação com o Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano (IDH)

“…1 In Paulínia, SP, when male schoolchildren aged 6 to 12, studied in 1979 and 1980, were compared with children in 1993 and 1994, a positive SGT for height was observed of the order of 1.13 to 5 cm per decade. 4 In the Seychelles, in the Indian Ocean, adolescents aged 15.5 years were compared between 1956 and 2006 (1956 and 1957, 1998 and 1999 and 2005 and 2006) demonstrating a positive SGT. Between the 1950s and 1990s there was an increase in height of 1.62 cm/decade and 1.14cm/ decade between the 1990s and 2000s.…”

“…Studies show that in the most privileged population groups SGT remains positive, in contrast with other groups. 4 The living conditions of the Brazilian population have been improving significantly over recent decades and this is illustrated by the progressive increase in Brazil's mean HDI over consecutive surveys. In 1960, Brazil's mean HDI was 0.394 and reached 0.757 in 2000 and 0.813 in 2007.…”

Estatura final (EF) em síndrome de Turner (ST): experiência de 76 casos acompanhados na Unidade de Endocrinologia Pediátrica do Hospital de Clínicas da Universidade Federal do Paraná

“…(25). É sabida a importân-cia da tendência secular de crescimento, sendo descrito na literatura um ganho entre 1,2 e 4,33 cm em meninas não portadoras da ST em um grupo populacional do estado de São Paulo (40). É difícil de determinar até quanto essa tendência secular de crescimento poderia ser observada num grupo de meninas com ST.…”