Comparação entre as curvas de crescimento do Centers for Disease Control and Prevention e da Organização Mundial da Saúde para lactentes com idade de seis a 12 meses

• Autor(a) principal: Pires, Bianca Sant'Anna [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Akutsu, Rita de Cássia [UNIFESP], Castro, Lucíola Sant'Anna de [UNIFESP], Asakura, Leiko, Sachs, Anita [UNIFESP], Abrão, Ana Cristina Freitas de Vilhena [UNIFESP], Coca, Kelly Pereira [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-05822010000400005; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/6094
• topic: growth; anthropometry; nutritional status; child; crescimento; antropometria; estado nutricional; criança

OBJECTIVE: Compare the nutritional status of male and female infants classified according to the growth curve proposed by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC-2000) and the new growth curve proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO-2006). METHODS: This longitudinal study enrolled children of 6-12 months old of both genders. They were born at term and exclusively or predominantly breastfed. A single researcher collected demographic, anthropometric and nutritional data. The Wilcoxon test was used to compare curves and the Friedman test was used to analyze the variance. RESULTS: Among the 55 followed children, 51% (n=28) were males. The percentages of normal weight-for-age and proper height-for-age in both genders were above 80%. The nutritional status classification according to both growth curves was similar. Agreement between the two curves regarding weight and height was 98.2 and 96.4%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: CDC-2000 and WHO-2006 growth curves were similar regarding nutritional status classification of 6-12 months old breastfeed infants.