Sobrepeso e obesidade na síndrome de Down: estudo de fatores relacionados ao ganho de peso em adolescentes

• Autor(a) principal: Theodoro, Luciana Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/22586
• topic: adolescentes; obesidade; síndrome de Down; sobrepeso; adolescents; obesity; Down s syndrome; overweight; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

The obesity comes increasing too much in the last few decades and for this reason they are innumerable studies that dedicates to the treatment of this illness. However, the epidemic still little is studied in people with Down s syndrome, whose situation propitiates a bigger development of the illness due to the thyroid and growth hormones imbalance problems - that are the factors etiologies of the illness in the population without the syndrome. This study had as objective identify the existence of overweight and obesity in adolescents with Down s syndrome and establish relations with eating habits, hormonal alterations, practices of physical activities and emotional behavior. Had participated in this study 40 adolescents with Down s syndrome between 10 and 19 years of both sex and their respective mothers. The data had been collected in the clinic of a hospital in São Paulo city from a social demography fiche, a questionnaire applied to the mothers and interview with the adolescents and mothers. The results had indicated that, in relation to the weight, 60% had been considered with overweight and obesity, being classified 20% with overweight and 40% with obesity, of these 50% with moderate obesity and 50% with light obesity. The eating habits had demonstrated that 40% eat more than the majority of the people, in the opinion of their mothers. The compulsory search for foods was related by 65% of the interview. The overweight and the obesity had been took of alterations of thyroid in 50% of the cases, of cardiopathies in 57,5%, familiar historic of obesity of 27,5% in fathers and 31% in the mothers and the practical of physical activity in 62,5%. The mothers had chosen as predispositions factors of the overweight and obesity in their children the fact to have Down s syndrome and the adolescents demonstrated to have idea of what it is necessary to make to lose weight and make distinction between healthful and not healthful foods. That can be concluded that the combination of diverse factors can interfere with the presence of the excess of weight in the population with Down s syndrome as already studied in the population without the syndrome, kwon that the syndrome to have clinical alterations (hypothyroidism) that favor the increase of weight still more.