Nutritional status and body composition of children from Vinhedo - SP elementary school District / Estado nutricional e composição corporal de crianças do ensino fundamental do municipio de Vinhedo - SP

AUTOR(ES)

Estela Marina Alves Boccaletto

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The aim of this study was to investigate the nutritional status and the body composition of schoolchildren from Vinhedo ? S.P. elementary school. It was studied 375 boys and 369 girls between 7 to 10 years registered on elementary public school district. Stature and weight were measured in the standard fashion and fat-free mass, fat mass and percentage of body fat mass (%BFM) using bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). It was calculated from these values the body mass index (BMI), fat-free mass index (FFMI) and fat mass index (FMI). It was used reference criteria from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and International Obesity Task Force (IOTF). T-Student and Mann Whitney tests were done to verify statistics differences between ages and both sexes, and also Pearson correlation and General Linear Models (GLM) variance analysis. As results were observed underweight prevalence 8,4% and overweight 13,55% to the girls and obesity?s prevalence 12,8% to the boys. These values were over expected. The body fatness among children with obesity was higher than 30% body fat mass. Both BMI criteria, CDC and IOTF, presented a good capacity to identify overweight among schoolchildren. BMI for age was well correlated with FMI, FFMI and % BMF among boys and girls in all age groups. These results identify a nutritional transition since that were found considerable underweight prevalence and obesity indicating that must be adopted actions to improve school health promotion to prevent and correct this situation

ASSUNTO(S)

corpo - composição body mass index crianças - nutrição - vinhedo (sp) indice de massa corporal vinhedo (sp) schoolchildren alunos - nutrição - vinhedo (sp) vinhedo (sp) children nutrition nutrition body composition

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