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

AUTOR(ES)

Tomé, F.S., Cardoso, V.C., Barbieri, M.A., Silva, A.A.M. da, Simões, V.M.F., Garcia, C.A., Bettiol, H.

FONTE

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

14/08/2007

RESUMO

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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