Crescimento físico em estatura de escolares de ascendência japonesa na cidade de São Paulo, Brasil

Cadernos de Saúde Pública

Gilberto Kac¹  Ricardo V. Santos¹ 

[1] ,Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Departamento de Endemias Samuel PessoaRio de Janeiro RJ ,Brasil

关键词: Physical Growth;    Stature;    Japanese-Brazilians;    Anthropometry;    Nutrition;    Crescimento Físico;    Estatura;    Nipo-brasileiros;    Antropometria;    Nutrição;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0102-311X1996000200014

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

This paper reports the results of a cross-sectional survey describing the growth in stature of a sample of school children of Japanese ancestry (three or four grandparents born in Japan) and of high socio-economic status living in São Paulo, Brazil. The sample comprises 124 individuals 7-10 years of age, of both sexes. The results show that the children present mean values of stature below the median values of the NCHS curves ("National Center for Health Statistics", U.S.A.). The values are similar to the medians of a sample of Japanese children and below those of well-to-do Brazilian children of non-Japanese ancestry studied by the PNSN ("Pesquisa Nacional sobre Saúde e Nutrição", Brazil). The findings do not support the hypothesis of uniformity of growth potential in stature, casting doubts on the utilization of a single anthropometric reference in the assessment of nutritional status.

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