Longitudinal anthropometric assessment of infants born to HIV-1-infected mothers, Belo Horizonte, southeastern Brazil.

• Autor(a) principal: Fausto, Maria Arlene
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: CarneiroI, Mariângela, Antunes, Carlos Mauricio de Figueiredo, Colosimo, Enrico Antonio, Pinto, Jorge Andrade
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFOP
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufop.br/handle/123456789/7746; http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0034-89102011005000040
• topic: Infant; Body weights and measures; Growth and development; HIV infections

The study was a longitudinal evaluation of the z-scores for the weight-for-age (WAZ), weight-for-length (WLZ) and length-for-age (LAZ) data collected from a cohort. A total of 97 non-infected and 33 HIV-infected infants born to HIV-1-infected mothers in Belo Horizonte, Southeastern Brazil, between 1995 and 2003 was studied. The average follow-up period for the infected and non-infected children was 15.8 months (variation: 6.8 to 18.0 months) and 14.3 months (variation: 6.3 to 18.6 months), respectively. A mixed-effects linear regression model was used and was fi tted using a restricted maximum likelihood.