Nutritional status of children and adolescents at diagnosis of hematological and solid malignancies

• Autor(a) principal: Lemos,Priscila dos Santos Maia
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Oliveira,Fernanda Luisa Ceragioli de, Caran,Eliana Maria Monteiro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista brasileira de hematologia e hemoterapia (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-84842014000600420
• topic: Pediatrics; Adolescent; Weight loss; Nutritional status; Neoplasms

Objective:To assess the nutritional status of child and adolescent patients with cancer at diagnosis.Methods:A total of 1154 patients were included and divided into two groups: solid and hematological malignancies. The parameters used for nutritional assessment were weight, height, triceps skinfold thickness, mid-upper arm circumference, arm muscle circumference, body mass index and percentage weight loss.Results:At diagnosis, below adequate body mass index was observed by anthropometric analysis in 10.85% of the patients – 12.2% in the solid tumor group and 9.52% in the hematologic group. The average weight loss adjusted for a period of 7 days was −2.82% in the hematologic group and −2.9% in the solid tumor group.Conclusions:The prevalence of malnutrition is higher among patients with malignancies than in the general population, even though no difference was observed between the two groups.