OBJECTIVE To investigate the nutritional status of children referred by a primary care center to the Nutritional Surveillance Program (Prá-Crescer), and to follow up children at risk in a health district of Porto Alegre. METHODS A retrospective cohort study was conducted with 674 children, aged between 6 and 59 months, referred to the Prá-Crescer Program. Height-for-age, weight-for-height and...

There are some apparently very discordant findings in the literature about the effect of undernutrition on oxygen consumption and the metabolic requirements for subsequent growth. Difficulties began to arise more than 50 years ago when Benedict and Talbot (1914), Murlin and Hoobler (1915), and Fleming (1921) agreed in finding that, 'the heat production per kilogram body weight is higher in the ...

BACKGROUND This study was undertaken to investigate the nutritional status of children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP) and to identify the risk factors of undernutrition. METHODS Seventy-five spastic CP children, 47 boys and 28 girls, (ages, 5 months to 10 years) underwent anthropometric assessment, including body weight, recumbent length, and knee height. Their functional status, medical co...

List of Tables iv List of Figures v Foreword vi Acknowledgments vii Summary viii 1. Research Questions and Motivation for Policy Analysis 1 2. Contents 3.1 Average total number of person-days worked by household members in the production of the main meher harvest, 1991 15 3.2 Time spent by household members on post-harvest activities, livestock activities, and non-farm activities (average total...

I. Male and female rats aged 3 weeks were divided into two groups. One group of each sex was allowed unlimited access to the stock diet, the other group was given the stock diet in restricted amounts for 10 weeks so that the males gained only 19 g and the females 21 g in comparison with 176 g and I 16 g for the well-nourished males and females respectively. The undernourished animals were then ...

BACKGROUND The high prevalence of obesity in children favors the appearance of metabolic syndrome (MS), increasing their cardiovascular risk. AIM To evaluate components of MS in children and to correlate them with surrogate markers of atherosclerosis and subclinical inflammation. MATERIAL AND METHODS We studied 209 children aged 11.5 +/- 2 years (50% girls, 30% prepuberal). Fifty percent ha...

OBJECTIVE The secular increase in height is assumed to result from long-term improvements in nutritional intakes and reductions in infectious disease burdens. Nutritional supplementation in early life reduces stunting in chronically undernourished populations. It is not known whether these improvements have an impact on the growth of subsequent generations. Our objective was to estimate the int...