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Food intake and nutritional status of preschool from maroon communities of the state Alagoas, Brazil
OBJECTIVE: To assess the dietary intake and the nutritional status of children from Alagoas maroon communities. METHODS: Cross-sectional study involving 724 children (12-60 months) from 39 Alagoas maroon communities. The nutritional status was investigated by anthropometric, biochemical (hemoglobin)...
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Sociedade de Pediatria de São Paulo
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4183032/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24473948 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-05822013000400005 |
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author | Leite, Fernanda Maria de B. Ferreira, Haroldo da Silva Bezerra, Myrtis Katille de A. de Assunção, Monica Lopes Horta, Bernardo Lessa |
author_facet | Leite, Fernanda Maria de B. Ferreira, Haroldo da Silva Bezerra, Myrtis Katille de A. de Assunção, Monica Lopes Horta, Bernardo Lessa |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To assess the dietary intake and the nutritional status of children from Alagoas maroon communities. METHODS: Cross-sectional study involving 724 children (12-60 months) from 39 Alagoas maroon communities. The nutritional status was investigated by anthropometric, biochemical (hemoglobin) and food consumption indicators. RESULTS: The prevalence of anemia, stunting and obesity were, respectively, 48.0, 9.7 and 6.0%. The children had a monotonous eating pattern and a considerable prevalence of inadequate intake of zinc (17.0%), folate (18.1%), iron (20.2%) and vitamins A (29.7%) and C (34.3%). Compared to the other socioeconomic classes, the E class children had lower average consumption (p<0.05) for energy, carbohydrate, vitamins A and C, folate, iron, zinc and phosphorus. CONCLUSIONS: Anemia is a serious Public Health problem. The prevalence of chronic malnutrition and obesity were similar to those observed for the children in the State as a whole, where a nutritional transition process is occuring. There was a high prevalence of inadequate food intake risk for zinc, folate, iron and vitamins A and C, suggesting the need for nutritional education actions. |
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spelling | pubmed-41830322014-10-14 Food intake and nutritional status of preschool from maroon communities of the state Alagoas, Brazil Leite, Fernanda Maria de B. Ferreira, Haroldo da Silva Bezerra, Myrtis Katille de A. de Assunção, Monica Lopes Horta, Bernardo Lessa Rev Paul Pediatr Original Article OBJECTIVE: To assess the dietary intake and the nutritional status of children from Alagoas maroon communities. METHODS: Cross-sectional study involving 724 children (12-60 months) from 39 Alagoas maroon communities. The nutritional status was investigated by anthropometric, biochemical (hemoglobin) and food consumption indicators. RESULTS: The prevalence of anemia, stunting and obesity were, respectively, 48.0, 9.7 and 6.0%. The children had a monotonous eating pattern and a considerable prevalence of inadequate intake of zinc (17.0%), folate (18.1%), iron (20.2%) and vitamins A (29.7%) and C (34.3%). Compared to the other socioeconomic classes, the E class children had lower average consumption (p<0.05) for energy, carbohydrate, vitamins A and C, folate, iron, zinc and phosphorus. CONCLUSIONS: Anemia is a serious Public Health problem. The prevalence of chronic malnutrition and obesity were similar to those observed for the children in the State as a whole, where a nutritional transition process is occuring. There was a high prevalence of inadequate food intake risk for zinc, folate, iron and vitamins A and C, suggesting the need for nutritional education actions. Sociedade de Pediatria de São Paulo 2013-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4183032/ /pubmed/24473948 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-05822013000400005 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Leite, Fernanda Maria de B. Ferreira, Haroldo da Silva Bezerra, Myrtis Katille de A. de Assunção, Monica Lopes Horta, Bernardo Lessa Food intake and nutritional status of preschool from maroon communities of the state Alagoas, Brazil |
title | Food intake and nutritional status of preschool from maroon communities
of the state Alagoas, Brazil |
title_full | Food intake and nutritional status of preschool from maroon communities
of the state Alagoas, Brazil |
title_fullStr | Food intake and nutritional status of preschool from maroon communities
of the state Alagoas, Brazil |
title_full_unstemmed | Food intake and nutritional status of preschool from maroon communities
of the state Alagoas, Brazil |
title_short | Food intake and nutritional status of preschool from maroon communities
of the state Alagoas, Brazil |
title_sort | food intake and nutritional status of preschool from maroon communities
of the state alagoas, brazil |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4183032/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24473948 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-05822013000400005 |
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