Indicadores antropométricos do estado nutricional de pré-escolares em Araraquara, SP

• Autor(a) principal: Foschini, Ana Lígia Rozato [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Campos, Juliana Alvares Duarte Bonini [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://serv-bib.fcfar.unesp.br/seer/index.php/alimentos/article/viewArticle/1103; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/125983
• topic: Nutritional state; Anthropometry; Child preschool; Estado nutricional; Antropometria; Pré-escolares

The purpose of this study was to examine the anthropometric indicators of nutritional status in preschool children from public schools in the city of Araraquara, SP. The sample was selected in a probabilistic stratifi ed way and its size was set by a fi nite population sampling. The anthropometric indicators of the weight/ height (WHZ), height/age (HAZ), weight/age (WAZ) and body mass index (BMIZ) were calculated. The classifi cation of the nutritional status was accomplished according to the recommendation of the World Health Organization. 26 The education and economic level of the household head were evaluated by completing a questionnaire proposed by ANEP. 2 Pilot study was conducted to assess the intraexaminer agreement. A statistical descriptive analysis was accomplished and the associations of interest were made by applying the chi-square test (2 ). A signifi cance level of 5% was used. It was observed that 8.64% of preschool children were wasted, with predominance of the girls (p=0.013). The prevalence of low weight was 1.66% and 1.00% of the children were stunted with signifi cant association with the number of people living in the house. Of the preschoolers 38.37% were excess weighted. The prevalence of obesity was 15.78%. There was a greater number of girls with obesity and a greater number of boys with excess weight (p=0.049). The prevalence of excess weight was high in preschool children in this population and it should be considered in the planning of public guidelines.