Short stature in school aged and under-five year old children: a comparative analysis

• Autor(a) principal: Carneiro LAURENTINO, Glória Elizabeth
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Grande de ARRUDA, Ilma Kruze, Falcão RAPOSO, Maria Cristina, BATISTA FILHO, Malaquias
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Nutrição
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/nutricao/article/view/9777
• topic: child; short stature; nutritional dwarfism; school health; criança; déficit estatural; nanismo nutricional; saúde escolar

ObjectiveTo investigate whether the occurrence of short stature in school-aged children would be the same as thatfound in under-five year olds in terms of prevalence and some risk factors. MethodsThe sample consisted of 894 school-aged children (from 6 to 12 year-olds) and of 2.078 under-five year olds.Pearson´s c2 test of association was employed to verify the association between short stature and possible riskfactors in each of the groups investigated. The equality of proportions test was used to verify the differencesin prevalence of short stature in each age group, and an explanatory multivariate model of the short stature inthe under-five year olds was adjusted. ResultsTaking into account the entire sample, the proportion of short stature amongst school-aged children (16.9%)was significantly greater than amongst under-five year olds (12.1%). The multivariate model showed thatshort stature in school-aged children, the per capita income and the mother’s educational level and age, werethe factors that best explained short stature in the under-five year olds. ConclusionIn urban areas of the State of Pernambuco, the height/age indicator may be indicative of co-linearity betweenschool-aged children and under-five year olds. The occurrence of short stature in school-aged children was themain predictive factor of short stature in under-five year old siblings.