[Cidade Leonor slum, São Paulo. II. Longitudinal clinical and anthropometric follow-up of infants during their first year of life].
In this study, the authors performed a clinical and nutritional follow-up involving infants that live in a slum area of the City of São Paulo. The infants were followed since birth and up to the end of their first year of life. The nutritional status was evaluated considering the following criteria: weight/age, height/age, and weight/height indices. On the first visit, 38.6% of the infants already presented protein-calory malnutrition according to the weight/age index, and 31.1% presented early delay of growth. The application of the Seoane and Latham criteria showed that most infants had acute malnutrition, but chronic malnutrition was already present in 11.0% of the infants followed-up. The results of this study show the negative impact of an unfavorable environment on infants during their first year of life.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000886:Anthropometry; D001824:Body Constitution / Q000208:ethnology; D001938:Brazil; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009752:Nutritional Status; D011204:Poverty Areas; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000208:ethnology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
Observações sobre a favela da Cidade Leonor, São Paulo. II--Acompanhamento longitudinal clínico e antropométrico de crianças durante o primeiro ano de vida.