Cidade Leonor slum, São Paulo. II. Longitudinal clinical and anthropometric follow-up of infants during their first year of life

In this study, the authors performed a clinical and nutritional follow-up involving infants that live in a slum area of the City of São Paulo. The infants were followed since birth and up to the end of their first year of life. The nutritional status was evaluated considering the following criteria: weight/age, height/age, and weight/height indices. On the first visit, 38.6% of the infants already presented protein-calory malnutrition according to the weight/age index, and 31.1% presented early delay of growth. The application of the Seoane and Latham criteria showed that most infants had acute malnutrition, but chronic malnutrition was already present in 11.0% of the infants followed-up. The results of this study show the negative impact of an unfavorable environment on infants during their first year of life.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

1991

Erschienen:

1991

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:109

Enthalten in:

Revista paulista de medicina - 109(1991), 6 vom: 04. Nov., Seite 242-6

Sprache:

Portugiesisch

Weiterer Titel:

Observações sobre a favela da Cidade Leonor, São Paulo. II--Acompanhamento longitudinal clínico e antropométrico de crianças durante o primeiro ano de vida

Beteiligte Personen:

Viaro, T [VerfasserIn]
Kallas, M R [VerfasserIn]
Fagundes Neto, U [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

English Abstract
Journal Article

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 03.08.1992

Date Revised 15.11.2006

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM018019722