The growth and nutritional status of 185 school-aged children (97 boys and 88 girls) of low socio-economic level in Nova Iguaçú, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, were studied. Nutritional anthropometry identified 3.52 and 6.25% of the children as suffering from wasting and stunting, respectively. These prevalences of malnutrition were comparable to those described in pre-school children living in a "favela" (shanty town) of Rio de Janeiro. In general, the median height fell below the 25th centile of the international standard of growth. The value of 10 year-old boys fell below the 10th centile. The mean values of weight and height of these children were comparable to those of children from the Northeastern region of Brazil ("Nordeste"), hig...
Para a maior parte dos estados brasileiros, inexistem indicadores confiáveis sobre a saúde das crian...
O Brasil, caracterizado como país em desenvolvimento, vive um cenário onde imperam disparidades sóci...
Growth in terms of weight/age and height/age of 7,990 children from 0 to 11 years of age, randomly s...
It was studied the incidence and the degree of under nutrition in infants and children from low soci...
Four hundred and fifty first graders from the peripheric urban area of Londrina were studied with th...
Considering the importance of information about schistosomiasis for students 7-15 years old, age gro...
A study of 380 schoolchildren from the first through the fourth grades belonging to the S. Paulo Mun...
As part of a large epidemiological study focusing on child health in the City of S.Paulo (Brazil) a ...
ResumoObjetivoDescrever os valores percentílicos do índice de massa corporal (IMC), circun‐ferência ...
O crescimento físico tem íntima relação com os níveis de saúde, e desta forma, indiretamente relacio...
A survey of 754 preschool children was undertaken in the urban areas of seven small towns of the sem...
Foi estudada a recente evolução do estado nutricional de menores de 5 anos nas aldeias Parakanã, Mar...
The growth profile of 1,511 children attending a supplementary feeding program was studied over the ...
The state of nutritional education in elementary schools in Pernambuco, Brazil, was studied. The "Pr...
The research carried out consisted of the comparison of several methods of analysis of anthropometri...
Para a maior parte dos estados brasileiros, inexistem indicadores confiáveis sobre a saúde das crian...
O Brasil, caracterizado como país em desenvolvimento, vive um cenário onde imperam disparidades sóci...
Growth in terms of weight/age and height/age of 7,990 children from 0 to 11 years of age, randomly s...
It was studied the incidence and the degree of under nutrition in infants and children from low soci...
Four hundred and fifty first graders from the peripheric urban area of Londrina were studied with th...
Considering the importance of information about schistosomiasis for students 7-15 years old, age gro...
A study of 380 schoolchildren from the first through the fourth grades belonging to the S. Paulo Mun...
As part of a large epidemiological study focusing on child health in the City of S.Paulo (Brazil) a ...
ResumoObjetivoDescrever os valores percentílicos do índice de massa corporal (IMC), circun‐ferência ...
O crescimento físico tem íntima relação com os níveis de saúde, e desta forma, indiretamente relacio...
A survey of 754 preschool children was undertaken in the urban areas of seven small towns of the sem...
Foi estudada a recente evolução do estado nutricional de menores de 5 anos nas aldeias Parakanã, Mar...
The growth profile of 1,511 children attending a supplementary feeding program was studied over the ...
The state of nutritional education in elementary schools in Pernambuco, Brazil, was studied. The "Pr...
The research carried out consisted of the comparison of several methods of analysis of anthropometri...
Para a maior parte dos estados brasileiros, inexistem indicadores confiáveis sobre a saúde das crian...
O Brasil, caracterizado como país em desenvolvimento, vive um cenário onde imperam disparidades sóci...
Growth in terms of weight/age and height/age of 7,990 children from 0 to 11 years of age, randomly s...