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IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH SOCIOECONOMIC VULNERABILITY

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the association of anemia with the socioeconomic vulnerability of preschoolers in public day care centers, in the city of Taubaté, SP, Brazil. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study with a probabilistic sample that analyzed 363 children assisted in public day care centres in...

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Autores principales: Rocha, Élida Mara Braga, Lopes, Amanda Forster, Pereira, Silvia Maira, Leone, Claudio, de Abreu, Luiz Carlos, Vieira, Patricia Dore, Szarfarc, Sophia Cornbluth
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade de Pediatria de São Paulo 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7274531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32520297
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1984-0462/2020/38/2019031
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author Rocha, Élida Mara Braga
Lopes, Amanda Forster
Pereira, Silvia Maira
Leone, Claudio
de Abreu, Luiz Carlos
Vieira, Patricia Dore
Szarfarc, Sophia Cornbluth
author_facet Rocha, Élida Mara Braga
Lopes, Amanda Forster
Pereira, Silvia Maira
Leone, Claudio
de Abreu, Luiz Carlos
Vieira, Patricia Dore
Szarfarc, Sophia Cornbluth
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description OBJECTIVE: To analyze the association of anemia with the socioeconomic vulnerability of preschoolers in public day care centers, in the city of Taubaté, SP, Brazil. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study with a probabilistic sample that analyzed 363 children assisted in public day care centres in low-income and high-income areas of Taubaté, SP, Brazil. The hemoglobin concentration (Hb), dependent variable, was obtained by digital puncture, considering anemic children with Hb concentration <11.0 g/dL. The independent variables such as socioeconomic and demographic conditions were collected by a semi-structured questionnaire. RESULTS: The prevalence of iron deficiency anemia was 19.3% among preschoolers. Children from day care centers with high socioeconomic vulnerability had lower Hb concentration than those from a non-vulnerable area (p<0.05). CONCLUSIONS: The lower concentration of hemoglobin in preschoolers is associated with the location of day care centers in an area of socioeconomic vulnerability. Children attending these day care centers face adverse family conditions such as low income, working mothers, and mothers with low schooling, though they receive social benefits and monitoring by public health services.
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spelling pubmed-72745312020-06-15 IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH SOCIOECONOMIC VULNERABILITY Rocha, Élida Mara Braga Lopes, Amanda Forster Pereira, Silvia Maira Leone, Claudio de Abreu, Luiz Carlos Vieira, Patricia Dore Szarfarc, Sophia Cornbluth Rev Paul Pediatr Original Article OBJECTIVE: To analyze the association of anemia with the socioeconomic vulnerability of preschoolers in public day care centers, in the city of Taubaté, SP, Brazil. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study with a probabilistic sample that analyzed 363 children assisted in public day care centres in low-income and high-income areas of Taubaté, SP, Brazil. The hemoglobin concentration (Hb), dependent variable, was obtained by digital puncture, considering anemic children with Hb concentration <11.0 g/dL. The independent variables such as socioeconomic and demographic conditions were collected by a semi-structured questionnaire. RESULTS: The prevalence of iron deficiency anemia was 19.3% among preschoolers. Children from day care centers with high socioeconomic vulnerability had lower Hb concentration than those from a non-vulnerable area (p<0.05). CONCLUSIONS: The lower concentration of hemoglobin in preschoolers is associated with the location of day care centers in an area of socioeconomic vulnerability. Children attending these day care centers face adverse family conditions such as low income, working mothers, and mothers with low schooling, though they receive social benefits and monitoring by public health services. Sociedade de Pediatria de São Paulo 2020-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7274531/ /pubmed/32520297 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1984-0462/2020/38/2019031 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
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Rocha, Élida Mara Braga
Lopes, Amanda Forster
Pereira, Silvia Maira
Leone, Claudio
de Abreu, Luiz Carlos
Vieira, Patricia Dore
Szarfarc, Sophia Cornbluth
IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH SOCIOECONOMIC VULNERABILITY
title IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH SOCIOECONOMIC VULNERABILITY
title_full IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH SOCIOECONOMIC VULNERABILITY
title_fullStr IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH SOCIOECONOMIC VULNERABILITY
title_full_unstemmed IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH SOCIOECONOMIC VULNERABILITY
title_short IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH SOCIOECONOMIC VULNERABILITY
title_sort iron deficiency anemia and its relationship with socioeconomic vulnerability
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7274531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32520297
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1984-0462/2020/38/2019031
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