Are birth weight and maternal smoking during pregnancy associated with malnutrition and excess weight among school age children?

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

F.s. Tomé²  V.c. Cardoso²  M.a. Barbieri²  A.a.m. Da Silva¹  V.m.f. Simões²  C.a. Garcia²  H. Bettiol² 

[1] ,Universidade de São Paulo Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto Departamento de Puericultura e PediatriaRibeirão Preto SP ,Brasil

关键词: Child malnutrition;    Child obesity;    Body mass index;    Schoolchildren;    Socioeconomic level;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0100-879X2006005000163

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

In the late 1980's child malnutrition was still prevalent in Brazil, and child obesity was beginning to rise in the richest regions of the country. To assess the extent of the nutritional transition during the period and the influence of birth weight and maternal smoking on the nutritional condition of schoolchildren, we estimated the prevalence of excess weight and malnutrition in a cohort of Brazilian schoolchildren from 1987 to 1989. We calculated the body mass index (BMI) of 8- to 10-year-old schoolchildren born in Ribeirão Preto in 1978/79. We considered children with a BMI <5th percentile (P5) to be malnourished, children with P5³BMI

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